The Awful Deals

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• awful market research

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 10 Jun 09 by bpw89.

  A friend of mine approached me with a business plan to automate billing at parking garages, using a camera to read each car's license plate. So I did a search online, and it turned out that 5-6 c… Read This Deal »

• garbage men

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 21 Oct 07 by roadscholar.

  there was this firm that made incinerators, and they wanted to sell them all over the world. But they wanted to: "sell them, and get out." They had no desire to deal with any follow up or c… Read This Deal »

• media putz

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 20 Nov 07 by roadscholar.

  Did you hear the one about the media CEO in Colorado who wanted to raise money in two rounds?
  
  The first round was for $1 million.
  
  The second round was for $1 billion
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• the moron with lumps in his head

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 14 May 09 by roadscholar.

  So this absolute moron goes out and spends a million bucks in equipment that depreciated, and became worthless. He did this of course, with someone else’s money.
  
  When it became ti… Read This Deal »

• Sell me the goodies, I’ll pay you later.

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 15 May 09 by roadscholar.

  That’s kind of like Wimpy, the Popeye character “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
  
  The Russian doctor with the old brother in law in Moscow. B… Read This Deal »

• No plan, no clue

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 08 Oct 07 by schmoil.

  On one deal, a firm came to me looking for money. They had no business plan, no strategy, no budget, and no real way to make the investors happy. When we explained that this was unacceptable, they tol… Read This Deal »

• skiing in Holland???

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 18 Oct 07 by roadscholar.

  there was this group that wanted to to start a ski rental business, and ski school in The Netherlands. Did they know that The Netherlands is flat, and that the nearest mountains were 5 hours away?… Read This Deal »

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