Manhattan Reborn 1978

On a sunny noon, inside the Bonini restaurant.

David began to introduce.

"Let's talk about lottery first. Everyone is familiar with it. Now more than a dozen states across the United States have begun legalizing lotteries, but most of them are operated by state governments in cooperation with large companies."

"In New York State, there is no development trend in this area yet. Maybe those officials have not discovered its value or do not have the appropriate opportunity to develop it."

"We can first do some underground lotteries to gain market share, including but not limited to football betting, real-time number draws, regular number draws, etc."

"On the one hand, we will go to the state parliament to mediate this matter and make it formal and legal, so as to expand our influence and impartiality."

"According to the operating data of lotteries in other states that I found, among the lotteries currently on sale, the highest overall winning rate is 57%."

"According to this ratio, I calculated that after excluding all expenses, its final profit margin can reach about 21% per year."

"And it is affected by sales volume. For example, if 1 million dollars were sold this year, what is his profit?"

Someone rushed to answer: "Twenty-one million dollars!"

"Binggo!! Yes."

"Let me talk about the difficulty of it again."

"The first point is legalization. As I said just now, when it has not been approved by the state government, there are great risks in underground lottery."

"Underground lotteries need to have higher winning rates than regular lotteries to attract people to buy them."

"Increased costs, reduced profit margins, illegality, malicious competition from others, possible lottery fraud, etc. are all problems that underground lotteries will face."

"So, if we want to do this business, we must do everything we can to get it through the state assembly, pass it, and take it into our own hands."

"The second point is design, printing and sales."

"Nowadays, states are selling lotteries in the traditional sense, which have simple rules, average winning rates, and rough production."

“As for the lottery we want to make, we need to refer to the design and printing process of Meida to make it an inimitable product and improve its image and credibility.”

"Then the initial investment will be more, which will put a certain amount of pressure on funds."

"If we do sales by ourselves, it will be a lot of pressure and we will have a lot of funds. Sales will also be low because of the narrow scope of distribution."

"This is not worth the gain, so we are looking for partners and letting more people join in, so that we can expand the market and increase our lottery sales."

"Exquisite products, difficult to imitate, high winning rate, and high rebates to sellers will become our initial business philosophy."

When David said this, he paused to give everyone time to react.

He looked around and saw that most of the people's faces had expressions of late-stage constipation and intestinal obstruction.

Who doesn’t want to make money?

But David said that the lottery business is too complicated. . . .

Also, the family does not have powerful allies in the state government who can help push this matter forward.

Judging from the frowning and silent expressions of the two people, maybe this business is probably going to pass.

Seeing that no one was talking, Old Malkin motioned for David to continue the next topic.

David nodded.

Continue to introduce the next one, the business of A goods.

"A piece of goods.

Or we can call it imitation or fake.

Like Ludy, he received a batch of goods a while ago.

The watches among them are all fake Rolex watches, called Rolex. "

Everyone burst into laughter. Everyone knew about this. Because of this, Ludy was severely laughed at.

Later he found the Turk who gave him the goods and broke his legs.

David smiled and continued:

“Rolex has the goods.

Then there are also fakes of other famous watches.

We can also do these businesses, including clothing, shoes and hats, and luxury goods. "

“Some commonly used high-end products include fake jewelry and fake jewelry.

Some alternatives can be found.

Like those diamond guys, package them to look high.

The price is only 1/10 of the real thing.

Our costs and profits should be one to one.

However, this business requires a lot of manpower and a wide range of sales channels. We can produce them in the United States and sell them throughout Europe. "

"Now, Hong Kong is a British colony, and it has become one of the trade distribution centers for import and export between the East and the West.

We can contact distributors in Hong Kong and European countries to produce and wholesale to them. "

"The United States is the frontier window leading the world's trends. Many popular products can be copied and sold by us without any thought."

“Of course, this business also has many disadvantages, including the high demand for personnel.

Several factories and many workers are needed.

We need more knowledgeable people to help.

It requires a large amount of capital to be invested in the early stages to create the initial stage of snowballing, the snowball heart. "

After David finished speaking, he looked at the people around him.

A few people were thoughtful.

And most people looked confused.

Someone signaled and asked a few questions.

After David answered them one by one, seeing that everyone had no questions, he took a drink of water and continued his deception.

"Let's talk about the third business now, "Little Piece".

Everyone here knows what happened to him?Everyone has seen it, right? "

The crowd laughed.

David continued:

"From what I know, the emergence of cameras, video recorders, and video tapes has brought this industry into a state of high explosive growth."

"Everyone in this industry is like a chicken blood. This industry has also entered a high-output era of semi-streamlined operations due to the advancement of shooting methods."

“And it’s doing incredibly well in terms of market sales and there’s very high demand from a lot of people.

For example, I have a new friend who suffers from insomnia every day and relies on drinking beer and watching short movies to hypnotize him during the day. . . "

David was talking about Lavis. . .

The crowd laughed!

"There are currently [-] to [-] beauties officially found on the street in Manhattan, and there are thousands of them willing to be filmed."

"Put up provocative poses in front of the camera and play games with people. In half a day, you can get enough money to stand on the street for two or three days."

"Let the brokers and the beauties on the street feel that it is a good deal."

"The person behind me is a director, a studio owner, Harvey." David then introduced Harvey sideways.

Harvey stood up nervously and nodded to everyone.

"I invested in the last film of his studio, which doubled the profit and even won an award."

"This means that this film has made several actors famous, raised their values, and built the reputation of Harvey Studio. Then his next film will attract more people's attention, viewing, and purchase .”

David waved Harvey to sit down, stood in the middle of the crowd and said:

"What we have to do is bring together all the available resources, including all the studios in New York."

“Bring in the studio heads, big and small, and we’ll hire their people.”

"Monopolize all professional personnel and sign contracts with them."

"For distribution, video recording, sales, rentals, etc., we can find powerful partners to do it together."

"We can establish an investment return assessment mechanism for every director who makes a film."

"If this director helps us make money, we can increase his investment amount and increase his profit sharing income according to the situation."

"If the director keeps helping us make money, his quota will be higher and higher, and our trust will be higher and higher. He will also become a rich man because of the profit sharing."

"We are not greedy in this matter!"

Everyone pointed at Ludy and laughed.

Ludy clapped his legs, pointed at David, and smiled through gritted teeth. . . .

David ignored him and continued:

"In this way, the director can apply for more investment from us. If he succeeds, everyone will make money, forming a virtuous cycle."

"Here, I would like to state emphatically that it is normal to have both losses and profits in business."

"Directors who have been losing money are asked to work as assistants for directors who can make money."

"And we need to set up an review department. All directors must submit applications to this department, and only after approval can they receive investment."

"We want to set up a company and sign formal contracts with everyone."

"We are only responsible for investment. If it passes the investment review, and the film they produced cannot be released or loses money due to the director's reasons."

"We can go to him to make compensation."

When David said this.

Someone interjected from the side: "No one can owe us money and not pay it back..."

Everyone laughed and nodded.

Harvey looked at this group of living bandits and quietly wiped away the cold sweat. . . .