Top 50 Microcap Manager List: Chris Krug
For this week’s Top 50 Microcap Investors we present Chris Krug, President of Chatham Harbor Capital, LLC. Chatham Harbor Capital, LLC, based in New York City, is a concentrated small cap strategy focused on all industries in Europe, North America, and Australia. Chris graduated from Clemson University with degrees in both Financial Management and Business Management. As Peter Lynch once said, “The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game.” While Chris gravitates more heavily toward the teachings of John Neff and Carl Icahn, this Lynch quote speaks volumes to his process and dedication. Chris began his career working fifteen-hour days and aimed to read at least one book per day. Seven years later, Chris wakes up at 4 am and meets with fifteen different management teams daily. Chris uses management as a source for idea generation. As a result of this rigorous process, he has studied a wide variety of industries.
Read our feature on Chris Krug here
Dawson James Securities’ 6th Annual Small Cap Growth Conference
When? Thursday- October 21, 2021
Where? Wyndham Grand Hotel, Jupiter, FL
Who? YOU!
How? Register Here
Small-cap industries, company executives, and investors from the healthcare, technology and consumer sectors are invited to attend this Small Cap Growth Conference. There is no fee for attendees.
Since 2004, Dawson James Securities, an investment banking firm with offices in New York, Florida and Maryland has propelled small and microcap public and private growth companies towards growth and lucrative investment opportunities.
This 6th annual Small-cap growth conference is focused on providing a unified platform for senior leadership from approximately 40 small-cap growth companies and 12 leading industry sponsors to communicate and develop productive business relationships with institutional funds, family offices and high net-worth investors.
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Everything is sold
“If you build it, they will come” might be good advice for those trying to resurrect baseball players from the past, but it’s often bad advice in business. Sometimes it works, when a product is so good and word-of-mouth so strong that customers find you without much marketing effort. But even then, a little luck is often required. More often, for a business, product, or idea to succeed, you need to be able to communicate the idea—and sell it. As Sam Zell said in a recent appearance on The Grant Williams Podcast:
“One of the greatest lies in the world is ‘build a better mousetrap and they’ll come to it.’ That really is just an incredible lie. Everything is sold. Everything is sold. And if you can’t sell whatever your ideas are, they die by the wayside.”
What’s the best way to sell something? Make something worth selling. The best way to get what you want is to deserve it, and that comes from creating something that people want to buy. And while you still need to get it in front of customers and sell it, once there, if it’s worth it, and if you genuinely believe that yourself, then it can sell itself. This is the revelation that Harvey Firestone discussed in his book Men and Rubber: The Story of Business:
“Thereby, quite unconsciously, I turned up the first principle of salesmanship—which is, that you must thoroughly believe in what you have to sell. Then selling becomes merely a matter of showing how your product will help a prospect. I have always been more of a salesman than a manufacturer—it has been hard for me to learn factory methods. But selling has always come easy to me, simply because, since those patent medicines, I have never attempted to sell anything which I did not thoroughly believe in.”
Create something worth selling, and then get out there and let people know about it. It’s what we try and do here at Co/Investor Club with our Premium Membership. We believe we’ve created something worth far more than $100 per year, and that it’ll keep getting better all the time.
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