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Osher: Initiating a company sale yields one-tenth of buyer-initiated prices
“Because anytime you try to sell something, you get about one-tenth of what you get when they want to buy you.”
Osher: Set prices by market willingness to pay, not wholesale cost
“The reason I bring it up is it was a great lesson that I used for the rest of my whole business career, and that is that you set your price on what the market will pay, what's the optimum price for a market, as opposed to what you paid for it.”
Osher: Entrepreneurial confidence comes from small early wins
“It almost would seem as if I'm a courageous person because I'm so willing to open businesses and this and that, and it really does come back to the value of starting my first business at five years old and having businesses successful. All through high school,…”
Osher: Most successful founders experience 'entrepreneurial terror'
“And this is it's called entrepreneurial terror, and I think most successful ones included have gone through this at some point, because the buck completely stops with you.”
Osher: Major toy acquirers buy entire product categories, not single products
“If I'm ever going to sell this company, I'm going to need a category that Hasbro or Mattel or one of these companies need because they buy categories. That's what they don't need a product unless it's a lifelong product. They need a category.”