I made a personal loan to the company of sixty-five thousand dollars to stave off the bank for one week
为了拖延一周的银行还款时间,我个人给公司贷款65000美元
so I could start to negotiate with three senior managers at Hinde interested in buying the company.
因此我可以开始和三位有意收购该公司的Hinde高层进行谈判。
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.
谈判奏效了,Amtex同意以一千美元的价格将公司百分之百的股票卖给我们,还包括公司所有的负债。
As the key investor, I purchased fifty-one per cent of the company for five hundred and ten dollars.
作为关键投资人,我以510美元的价格买下了公司51%的股权。
The four of us managed to put together two million dollars, and we decided this was to be used totally on product development.
我们四个人凑了2百万美元,我们决定将这笔钱全部用于产品开发。
Amtex hadn't moved on any new products, so we had the luxury of engineering and of proof-of-concept waiting for us.
Amtex没有开发任何新产品,所以等待着我们的是工程和概念验证的难得享受。
We published a new catalogue of high-tech products and took out advertising in leading astronomy magazines.
我们出版了新的高技术产品目录并在主要的天文学杂志上刊登广告。
Just twelve months after our purchase, we managed to get the company into the black.
买下公司近12个月后,我们就让公司实现盈余。
For the first two years, we all took very modest salaries. But it was an exciting time, and progress was being made.
头两年,我们都拿着微薄的薪水。但是这是一个激动人心的时期,我们取得了进步。