First you must create a market through advertising your product Second..determine the potential sales from an in-depth marketing study Third...calculate the total gross sales in dollars (if possible) Fourth...go to Goldmanm Sachs or a venture capital firm and present your case along with capital requirements for startup Fifth...If they are willing to loan you the money or do a deal then go for it
I can't wait.... then IN-18's will be really cheap....do ya think? Regards On 7 July, 17:42, Adam Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) The vacuum tubes that china (and sovtek) have resurrected are all > power triodes. These are to fuel the desire in the music industry for > tube amps (both for reproduction and for creation of music). It has long > been known in the guitar industry that tube amps give a "warmer" sound > that "fuzzes" as it overdrives (think hendrix) vs solid state amps which > make nasty distortion when they overdrive (think > metallica/megadeth/etc).. I assume that solid state amps have probably > gotten so good that it's impossible to tell the difference anymore (or > not? I don't know) but this is how it was in the 80's & 90's, and such a > thing is built into the conscience of the music industry and especially > guitarists. I've noticed that musicians will pay more for just about any > piece of equipment that any other consumer on the face of the planet. If > you can target your gadget at musicians, they will pay 10x the price > everyone else will, because they're always looking to get "that sound" > that will set them apart from everyone else. I've built quite a few > midibox SID's for friends that are musicians (because they cannot be > sold according to the license agreement) but the much more inferior > SIDStation's from the 80's routinely sell for thousands of dollars. The > midibox contains like $50 worth of parts.. depending on how easily you > can find broken Commodore 64's. Musicians are crazy... So, anyways, > where I am going with this is that just because China & Russia are > making power triodes for amplifiers doesn't mean that there is a market > for other tube types. I don't see them making any color TV sweep tubes > for my tube transceiver, for example... or any other power pentodes for > that matter. I assume that nixies are a much more niche market than > power amplifiers, the two are apples and oranges. > > 2) What happened to all of the soviet equipment for making nixies? if I > had to guess? It probably has been sold as scrap. In 2003, the Minister > of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy reported that Radioactive > Thermoelectric Generators were being taken to pieces for scrap by scrap > thieves... If people will tear apart an RTG for scrap, I guarantee they > will tear apart an old nixie factory for scrap too. > > -Adam > > On 7/7/2011 1:34 PM, James wrote: > > > > > China has resurrected production of a surprising number of vintage > > vacuum tubes. I think a large Nixie tube could be produced at a > > similar price point and demand as some of the popular audio output > > tubes. I wonder what has happened to the Soviet equipment that was > > used to produce nixies up into the 80s?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
