Raden

“We sold out of all the product that we had made, even with venture funding and working capital funding and everything else, and so now we're You know, 15 day shipping times when really we're meant to be a same day or second day business.”

“Most of our roadmap is really around the mobile experience and really connecting with a travel experience that engages users of our product and provides them with all sorts of other information about where they're going and the airports that they're traveling …”

“There were very few great brands. There are a couple of luxury products. You know, the merchandising seemed all over the place. The pricing seemed all over the place.”

“It's multiple companies in one. So you have a luggage firm, you have an electronics firm, you have mobile development, firmware development, then you have all the things around building a brand. Then you're a retailer, you're a distributor, you're a marketer, …”

“My advice to entrepreneurs is, you know, do the sourcing work, and a lot of the things around VC will come easier, because they're really the people that are going to invest in building your prototypes.”

“I met Kenny Sweet who had worked on the Beats project for a number of years, and we really vibed, and I had this merchandising concept around a single almost unlined product, you know, that was very stark and looked like many of the products that we've been bu…”

“I tend to generally stay away even when I get a request for a meeting. Don't really want to be their first foray into investing in a hardware company.”

“I think it's very hard to build brand, which is, you know, first and foremost, what we're up to here without some type of You know, physical footprint or place for consumers to interact with you being, you know, even your retail associate and how they're train…”