Let's see if we can bring some people to the martial arts school for testing, indirectly reducing some investment costs on equipment.
Nowadays.
It's been about two weeks, we've had over a dozen drinking sessions, managed to close deals with two companies.
Negotiation on the price with one company is ongoing.
There's potential interest from two more companies.
The rest is just laughter at the table, but the day after drinking, they start to beat around the bush and avoid the topic.
In the end, it all comes down to "screw them."
"Damn them!" The owner gets angry thinking about these people, "If they don't agree, just say so. But they keep promising things they don't intend to deliver, making me lose interest, yet they keep inviting me out for drinks.
I figured, it's no big deal to drink with them, we'd all have fun, but they keep discussing business over drinks?
Afterwards, they deny it, saying their company doesn't agree.