Doug Bernstein
13 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2016 by Doug Bernstein · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Dec 19, 2016 neutral
Dec 19, 2016
Melissa & Doug was bootstrapped by reinvesting all early revenue into inventory
“We wanted to be self-funded, and we lived incredibly frugally. For at least three years, we ate ramen noodles, which were eight for a dollar, and turkey hot dogs on a hot plate, because it was about 50 cents a meal, and we lived with our parents for a few year…”
Dec 19, 2016
A hired manufacturing agent set up a competing booth selling their puzzles
“The very first time we went to a very large toy show where you would exhibit to retailers and show them your products, and the agent who we had hired to help us make our puzzles had a display set up just down the hall from us with our exact puzzles.”
Dec 19, 2016
Products must be designed to explain themselves without retail store clerks
“It reminded us that there's a higher burden on us because we take our products really personally. And we think that everyone in every day is going to take all the time to explain everything about it the way that we, the inventors would. And that's not always t…”
Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 positive
Dec 19, 2016 neutral
Melissa & Doug's first product was a self-produced interactive children's video
“We decided that we wanted to make a program for children that would be groundbreaking in that children wouldn't sit there and watch it. They would actually participate with the program. And so we literally wrote, scripted, produced, directed, cast, wrote music…”
Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018
Bernstein: Toymakers must design products that explain themselves without retail staff
“It reminded us that there's a higher burden on us because we take our products really personally. And we think that everyone in every day is going to take all the time to explain everything about it the way that We, the inventors would. And that's not always t…”
Feb 5, 2018
Doug Bernstein: Copying established models leads to mediocrity by definition
“Because our feeling has always been, if we copy every good model out there, at very best, what does that mean? We're going to be mediocre by definition, because we are simply following and copying what everyone else is doing.”
Feb 5, 2018 positive