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Sunday, 12/15/2013 1:11:36 PM

Sunday, December 15, 2013 1:11:36 PM

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There have been those in the past who have missed major major opportunities ... I will NOT be making that mistake with NTEK ... I'm keeping my NTEK shares ... BOOYAH!!

1) Turning Down The Beatles ... SHOULD WE SIGN THEM UP?

Executives: Mike Smith and Dick Rowe, executives in charge of evaluating new talent for the London office of Decca Records.
Background: On December 13, 1961, Mike Smith traveled to Liverpool to watch a local rock 'n' roll band perform. He decided they had talent, and invited them to audition on New Year's Day 1962. The group made the trip to London and spent two hours playing 15 different songs at the Decca studios. Then they went home and waited for an answer. They waited for weeks.
Decision: Finally, Rowe told the band's manager that the label wasn't interested, because they sounded too much like a popular group called The Shadows. In one of the most famous of all rejection lines, he said: "Not to mince words, Mr. Epstein, but we don't like your boys' sound. Groups are out; four-piece groups with guitars particularly are finished."
Impact: The group was The Beatles, of course. They eventually signed with EMI Records, started a trend back to guitar bands, and ultimately became the most popular band of all time. Ironically, "within two years, EMI's production facilities became so stretched that Decca helped them out in a reciprocal arrangement, to cope with the unprecedented demand for Beatles records."

2) Turning Down E.T. ... SHOULD WE LET THAT DIRECTOR USE OUR CANDY IN HIS FILM?

Executives: John and Forrest Mars, the owners of Mars Inc., makers of M&M's
Background: In 1981, Universal Studios called Mars and asked for permission to use M&M's in a new film they were making. This was (and is) a fairly common practice. Product placement deals provide filmmakers with some extra cash or promotion opportunities. In this case, the director was looking for a cross-promotion. He'd use the M&M's, and Mars could help promote the movie.
Decision: The Mars brothers said "No."
Impact: The film was E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Stephen Spielberg. The M&M's were needed for a crucial scene: Eliott, the little boy who befriended the alien, uses candies to lure E.T. into his house. Instead, Universal Studios went to Hershey's and cut a deal to use a new product called Reese's Pieces. Initial sales of Reese's Pieces had been light. But when E.T. became a top-grossing film - generating tremendous publicity for "E.T.'s favorite candy" - sales exploded. They tripled within two weeks and continued climbing for months afterward. "It was the biggest marketing coup in history," says Jack Dowd, the Hershey's executive who approved the movie tie-in. "We got immediate recognition for our product. We would normally have to pay 15 or 20 million bucks for it."

3) Selling M*A*S*H For Peanuts ... HOW DO WE COME UP WITH SOME QUICK CASH?

Executives: Executives of 20th Century Fox's TV division (pre-Murdoch)
Background: No one at Fox expected much from M*A*S*H when it debuted on TV in 1972. Execs simply wanted to make a cheap series by using the M*A*S*H movie set again - so it was a surprise when it became Fox's only hit show. Three years later, the company was hard up for cash. When the M*A*S*H ratings started to slip after two of its stars left, Fox execs panicked.
Decision: They decided to raise cash by selling the syndication rights to the first seven seasons of M*A*S*H on a futures basis: local TV stations could pay in 1975 for shows they couldn't broadcast until October 1979 - four years away. Fox made no guarantees that the should would still be popular; $13,000 per episodes was non-refundable. But enough local stations took the deal so that Fox made $25 million. They celebrated ...
Impact: ... but prematurely. When M*A*S*H finally aired in syndication in 1979, it was still popular (in fact, it ranked #3 that year). It became one of the most successful syndicated shows ever, second only to "I Love Lucy." Each of the original 168 episodes grossed over $1 million for local TV stations; Fox got nothing.

4) What Use is the Telephone, the Electrical Toy? ... SHOULD WE BUY THIS INVENTION?

Executive: William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
Background: In 1876, Western Union had a monopoly on the telegraph, the world's most advanced communications technology. This made it one of America's richest and most powerful companies, "with $41 million in capital and the pocketbooks of the financial world behind it." So when Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a wealthy Bostonian, approached Orton with an offer to sell the patent for a new invention Hubbard had helped to fund, Orton treated it as a joke. Hubbard was asking for $100,000!
Decision: Orton bypassed Hubbard and drafted a response directly to the inventor. "Mr. Bell," he wrote, "after careful consideration of your invention, while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial possibilities... What use could this company make of an electrical toy?"
Impact: The invention, the telephone, would have been perfect for Western Union. The company had a nationwide network of telegraph wires in place, and the inventor, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell, had shown that his telephone worked quite well on telegraph lines. All the company had to do was hook telephones up to its existing lines and it would have had the world's first nationwide telephone network in a matter of months. Instead, Bell kept the patent and in a few decades his telephone company, "renamed American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), had become the largest corporation in America ... The Bell patent - offered to Orton for a measly $100,000 - became the single most valuable patent in history." Ironically, less than two years of turning Bell down, Orton realized the magnitude of his mistake and spent millions of dollars challenging Bell's patents while attempting to build his own telephone network (which he was ultimate forced to hand over to Bell.) Instead of going down in history as one of the architects of the telephone age, he is instead remember for having made one of the worst decisions in American business history.

5) To invest in start up company Apple or NOT

"NanoTech Receives Exclusive 4K Rights to the Gaming Documentary for its UltraFlix UHD Streaming 4K Ultra HD Channel"
The first documentary, World 1-1, will be on Atari, the device which helped launch the modern video game industry with the 1972 release of Pong. The interview list for Atari includes Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari ... Garcia agreed and added, “One of the interesting facts that came out of our Atari interviews was that Nolan Bushnell turned down an offer from Steve Jobs, his former employee, to invest $50,000 in Apple during its early years. If he had made the investment, Bushnell would have owned one-third of Apple, which is now worth about $425 billion.”


I will NOT be letting this once in a lifetime opportunity slip by ... NanoTech Entertainment ... AND I refuse to fall for the "NTEK is a Scam" scam ...

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