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Hazzard: Small businesses never win IP battles financially
“Like, you can win on principle, but you will never win in money.”
Tracy Hazzard: Ghost designing yields better returns than launching consumer brands
“You know, it's really capital intensive and also brand building is really hard. So we kind of, we always call ourselves ghost designers. So we stay behind somebody else's brand for a reason because there's a lot of risk in there. There is a lot of money spent.…”
Hazzard: 86% of HazzDesign's product designs succeeded over past decade
“Well, we have an 86% success rate. So, which is pretty good considering most people have the worst of that. So that means that 86% of all our designs have succeeded in the last 10 years.”
Hazzard: HazzDesign's top chair has been sold at Costco for five years
“So our platinum record, if you want to call it, our platinum record product is a chair at Costco called, I think it's called metrics now. Like it always changes names every year, but it's been there for almost five years and you don't get to stay on the shelf …”
Hazzard: Costco only charges a 12% margin on retail products
“Costco has a really interesting model, and this is why people should totally buy, if you're already interested in buying it, buy it from Costco, because they only charge a 12% margin.”
Hazzard: HazzDesign chair hit 1M units sold over five years
“So I, you know, I think we calculated recently that we hit a million units total. So we've sold, but that's over, you know, what is basically five years.”
Hazzard: HazzDesign made close to $1M from a single chair design
“That's probably old. Yeah. I mean, from whenever I put up that page, so that's probably at least a year old, but it's, you know, it's fairly close to a million dollars on that one chair.”
Hazzard: At least 90% of HazzDesign's products are manufactured in Asia
“And especially because most of the items, almost, almost all of them, probably at least 90% of them are made in Asia.”
Hazzard: WTFF 3D printing podcast generates nearly 30,000 monthly downloads
“So we're close to about, you know, 30,000 per month.”