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Grinding – Embrace It & Stop Looking for That One Magic Move

December 5, 2019 by Ted 2 Comments

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As longtime readers may suspect, I am a bit of a newsy and as such, subscribe to an amazing array of sources of news and information. One such source is Fred Wilson, a cofounder of Union Square Ventures (USV), a New York City-based venture capital firm, who is a favorite of mine. Wilson does something that I admire and don’t seem to be able to equal – he posts to his blog EVERY day. Some of his posts are short, some long, some trivial, some surprisingly impactful.

Recently, Wilson (his blog: AVC, as in “A Venture Capitalist”) posted an item that really resonated with me – it’s about grinding…and I wanted to share this with Strata-gee.com readers. It is important…

What does Wilson mean by ‘grinding’?…

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James Loudspeaker Terminates Reps as Integration into Sonance Progresses

December 5, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Early last week, a holiday week, sources reached out to relay the news that multiple manufacturer sales representatives were being terminated by James Loudspeaker. Happy Thanksgiving…you’re fired. In chats, I heard of the pain that some those reps felt – for while getting terminated is never a happy circumstance, getting terminated during holidays seems particularly poignant.

James Loudspeaker’s CEO & Sonance’s CSO speak to what is going on…

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Filed Under: Management, Manufacturers, News, Sales Reps, Strategy Tagged With: James Loudspeaker, Jason Sloan, Mark Schafle

NPR: American Speaker Manufacturer Says Tariffs May Force Him Out

December 5, 2019 by Ted 1 Comment

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This week, National Public Radio (NPR) tells the story of the Minneapolis Speaker Company, Inc., known as MISCO, a St. Paul, MN-based manufacturer of speaker drivers and systems sold mostly on an OEM basis, who is struggling to continue to manufacture products here in the U.S. as they have for the last 70 years. What threatens their ability to continue to do so? In a word…tariffs.

See more on the MISCO story…

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Filed Under: Economic Trends, Management, Manufacturers, Strategy Tagged With: Dan Digre, loudspeakers, MISCO, tariffs

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