I made a personal loan to the company of sixty-five thousand dollars to stave off the bank for one week
為了拖延一周的銀行還款時間,我個人給公司貸款65000美元
so I could start to negotiate with three senior managers at Hinde interested in buying the company.
因此我可以開始和三位有意收購該公司的Hinde高層進行談判。
It worked, and Amtex agreed to sell us one hundred per cent of the company's stock, along with all its liabilities, for one thousand dollars.
談判奏效了,Amtex同意以一千美元的價格將公司百分之百的股票賣給我們,還包括公司所有的負債。
As the key investor, I purchased fifty-one per cent of the company for five hundred and ten dollars.
作為關鍵投資人,我以510美元的價格買下了公司51%的股權。
The four of us managed to put together two million dollars, and we decided this was to be used totally on product development.
我們四個人湊了2百萬美元,我們決定將這筆錢全部用于產品開發。
Amtex hadn't moved on any new products, so we had the luxury of engineering and of proof-of-concept waiting for us.
Amtex沒有開發任何新產品,所以等待著我們的是工程和概念驗證的難得享受。
We published a new catalogue of high-tech products and took out advertising in leading astronomy magazines.
我們出版了新的高技術產品目錄并在主要的天文學雜志上刊登廣告。
Just twelve months after our purchase, we managed to get the company into the black.
買下公司近12個月后,我們就讓公司實現盈余。
For the first two years, we all took very modest salaries. But it was an exciting time, and progress was being made.
頭兩年,我們都拿著微薄的薪水。但是這是一個激動人心的時期,我們取得了進步。