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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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LTEMP Sold the Picks and Shovels of the Smartphone Boom - Until the Shelf Moved On
Hardware · Consumer · Ecommerce

LTEMP Sold the Picks and Shovels of the Smartphone Boom - Until the Shelf Moved On

The San Francisco wholesaler turned cases, cables and Bluetooth speakers into a compact B2B catalog. Its surviving trail is a field guide to merchandising commodity hardware - and a warning about what happens when the catalog outlives the company behind it.

consumer-electronics · phone-accessoriesRead →
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The Family That Has Been Making Strings Since Before the Guitar
Hardware · Ecommerce · Consumer

The Family That Has Been Making Strings Since Before the Guitar

A 300-year-old Italian craft, a Long Island factory, and the strings on a very large share of the world's guitars. Inside how D'Addario turned a family trade into the industry's workhorse.

guitar-strings · musical-instrument-stringsRead →