Been a little while since I posted one of these, won't make it too long but it's *partially* different (sorry in advance mods - close thread at your discretion). Wanted to go over the current business that some of you already know of and something none of you know of (yay). Will try to keep this short.
So first, the Polish deal. Deal fell through, very little business is being done with them, don't know much of why but brother returned half the sign on bonus he received, original contract with them is now void. I'm pretty sure they found someone else - oh well. Now, he has a very large deal pending with Vodafone, a prominent carrier in Europe. He has a contract and a test order for iPhone's pending and multiple countries he'll be shipping to, in the millions of dollars. India, parts of Africa, and a couple others. He was actually competing with Verizon to fulfill Vodafone's order and beat their prices by $55, presumably due to Verizon's profit margin they must keep, my brothers margin's are tighter. That's his primary focus.
Secondly, completely new, I won't say much. He (and possibly myself) is going into the food business, more specifically yogurt. He thought of a design different from current products beneficial to the consumer without much of a difference per say... He has a design patent pending and schematics made. The big part of the story is he has a big connection. He works for a convenience store, and one the store managers at another store location he knows has a connection with Yoplait - an executive there. My brother sat down with him, and the executive worked some magic and got a meeting/presentation set up with General Mills in California to pitch his idea. Don't know too much yet, but the idea behind it isn't the yogurt, but the cup itself. Purposely being a bit more vague with this one to protect the idea. Exciting, eh?
So first, the Polish deal. Deal fell through, very little business is being done with them, don't know much of why but brother returned half the sign on bonus he received, original contract with them is now void. I'm pretty sure they found someone else - oh well. Now, he has a very large deal pending with Vodafone, a prominent carrier in Europe. He has a contract and a test order for iPhone's pending and multiple countries he'll be shipping to, in the millions of dollars. India, parts of Africa, and a couple others. He was actually competing with Verizon to fulfill Vodafone's order and beat their prices by $55, presumably due to Verizon's profit margin they must keep, my brothers margin's are tighter. That's his primary focus.
Secondly, completely new, I won't say much. He (and possibly myself) is going into the food business, more specifically yogurt. He thought of a design different from current products beneficial to the consumer without much of a difference per say... He has a design patent pending and schematics made. The big part of the story is he has a big connection. He works for a convenience store, and one the store managers at another store location he knows has a connection with Yoplait - an executive there. My brother sat down with him, and the executive worked some magic and got a meeting/presentation set up with General Mills in California to pitch his idea. Don't know too much yet, but the idea behind it isn't the yogurt, but the cup itself. Purposely being a bit more vague with this one to protect the idea. Exciting, eh?
