When you are in business, you are not typically there solely for the benefit of the broader world. You may well have an interest in doing good for some segment of that world, but the business is your living. You have to make decisions about what to do with the business from time to time. Most small businesses fail, often because their owners are not able to take the business to the next level, and can't survive the challenges of scaling up.
At a certain point, it becomes very sensible to sell out -- to recoup your investment and get out with some profit. I'm sure the Slim people aren't too unhappy. It's quite likely they couldn't have grown the company beyond what they had -- the fact that a relatively successful outfit like Logitech couldn't do so either does not lead to the conclusions that the previous owners made a mistake. On the other hand, you could as easily argue that they took Logitech to the cleaners, knowing that their niche product could never become a mass-market player. As reasonable as all the other (ill-informed) hypotheses out there. r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
