A school can buy a thousand laptops and still be nowhere near ready for Monday. Arey Jones has built its K-12 business around the work that turns a shipment into a classroom tool.
A meeting room, a locked door, and a cloud server have more in common than they seem. DataVox has built a business around making the connections behave.
A failed franchise, an oil embargo and a competitor across the street should have killed Bob Cole's little hi-fi shop. Instead, World Wide Stereo built a durable hybrid of theater, workshop and online store - a useful playbook for any independent retailer trapped between Amazon and the luxury market.