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The Company That Sold Apple's Missing Ports Back to Apple's Fans
When Apple stripped the ports off the MacBook Pro, 30,000 people paid HYPER more than $3 million to put them back. That was the whole business plan - and it worked.
MAAK Built Gear for the Front Line. Then 568 Backers Took It Outdoors.
A Santa Barbara hardware team took its frontline power system to Kickstarter, raised 20 times its goal, and learned that the real product was not a battery. It was everything the battery could connect to.
The Detroit Startup Betting Your Next Campfire Should Have No Fire At All
A wildfire ban on campfires sent Jarret Schlaff looking for a stove that could not start one. Lectric Boil's answer is an induction cooktop that runs on a battery, boils 36 cups of water on a charge, and never lights a match.
The Utah crew that put the campsite lantern on a nine-foot pole
Devos Outdoor turned a small annoyance - a dim lantern sitting on a picnic table - into a telescoping product line that first responders and overlanders now hang their evenings on.
The Texas Company Quietly Behind the Flashlight in Your Junk Drawer
It doesn't put its name on a single box. But NEBO, HALO, TRUE and Thaw sit in 50,000 stores - and Alliance Consumer Group owns all of them.
The Company That Turned a Dead Battery Into an 80-Year Business
For 79 years Schumacher Electric has sold the same quiet promise - your battery will not leave you stranded. The bet now is that the promise scales from a dead sedan to an electric car.