Re: One Word For Maronne - plus a bunch of these >> ! <<

"marrone" <marrone.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ebf8e012-7ae3-4f33-b1f8-4ec292915431@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Apr 24, 8:58 am, "tHEreaLjeWWitCh" <therea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Kinkos !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"So You Diane I."

Oh by the way Diane, Kinkos has put out of business little print shops
like ShitFoot's.

My point you idiot ....

erving College Campuses in the 1970s

Kinko's Copies Corp. was founded in 1970 by Paul Orfalea, a young man of Lebanese ancestry who gave the company the nickname given him for his curly red hair. Self-described as mechanically inept and dyslexic, he was a "C" student at the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a degree in finance in 1971. By then Orfalea had observed, "If you can't fix things and can't read things, then you can't get a job," but in fact he apparently never looked for one, for he had already concluded, as he later told a Forbes interviewer, "I'm sort of unemployable. I'm basically a peddler."

Seeking something to sell, Orfalea fixed his eye one day on the copy machine in the university library. Applying what he had learned from a marketing course that studied product life cycles, he decided, "This thing here is going to go for a long time." With funds from a $5,000 loan in 1969 from the Bank of America, cosigned by his father, he leased an 80-square-foot former hamburger stand in Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and rented a small Xerox copier, charging customers four cents a page. He and a few friends also sold about $2,000 a day worth of notebooks and pens out of the makeshift store, wheeling the copier out on the sidewalk when the premises became too crowded. He supplemented his income by going from one dormitory room to another in the evenings, hawking his wares from a knapsack.

When this business proved a success, Orfalea decided to open other stores on other college campuses. Since he did not have funds to finance them and did not want to franchise them, he formed partnerships with owner-operators, retaining a controlling interest in each. These partners were other students who scouted locations along the West Coast, sleeping in their Volkswagen buses or fraternity houses. Publicity consisted of flyers stuffed in mailboxes; orders were taken and delivered personally.


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