Dec21

Skull Candy Headphones – Entrepreneur of 2009 Award Winner

Entrepreneur.com

Inspiration hit Rick Alden on a chairlift, during a snowboarding trip in 2001. The iPod had just been introduced, but none of the headphones were designed to appeal to the iPod-toting action-sports crowd. It was time to change the game.

An experienced entrepreneur–Alden founded Device Manufacturing in 1995 and sold it to Atomic ski company in 1999–he got to work immediately and designed headphones and earbuds in bright colors and skater-boy patterns. He came up with a cool name–Skullcandy–and proceeded to take out two mortgages on the house he’d already paid off.

Alden says his wife made it an easy leap: “Her response was, ‘Listen, the worst thing that could possibly happen is the business fails, and we start all over again. That’s just not that bad.’ “ READ ALL

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3 Responses to “Skull Candy Headphones – Entrepreneur of 2009 Award Winner”

  1. Nash says:

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  2. The history is interesting and I like the design. Maxfun USA, Inc is a Japanese electronics company in upstate New Jersey targeting everyone who wants to buy quality stereo headphone products. We have a variety of products including headphones, earbuds, and earphones.

  3. EDDIE QARTEL says:

    THEM SHITS IS WACK HOMMIE I GOT THE NEW “WESC” HEADPHONES AND THEM NIGGAS CAN HOLLA LIKE BIG RED YALL HEARD THESE THINGS IS WEAK SOME JAPANESE OR HONG KONG BULLSHIT TRYNA RUN THE US NIGGA OUT OF A DOLLA COME ON HOMMIE IF YOU GOT LOVE FOR THE HOOD THEN OPEN UP A FACTORY IN THE HOOD NIGGA CRENSHAW GIVE US BLACKS AND BLUES AND REDS A JOB NIGGA WE OUT HERE DYING YOU LIVING IT UP ON SOME SKULL CANDY SHIT EDDIE QARTEL SWING IT LIKE IT IS HOMMIE NO MERCY FOR THE WEAK HOMMIE

    PS THESE HEADPHONES DONT EVEN KNOCK HOMMIE YOU WANT SOME REAL HEADPHONES GET THESE: http://wesc.com/articles/view/194

    THIS A BLOG A NIGGA CAN EXPRESS HIMSELF RIGHT? WE STILL GOT RIGHTS DONT WE?

    EDDIE QARTEL
    HARDCOREST NIGGAS EVER
    1.3 MILLION RECORDS SOLD
    $2.6 MILLION DOLLARS MADE
    TOP THAT NIGGA

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