When the founders of X-It Products saw a billion-dollar rival imitate the design of their popular new fire-escape ladder, they didn’t have much hope that their tiny start-up could survive. Amazingly, ...
THREE years ago, Aldo Di Belardino and Andrew Ive - youthful inventors and Harvard Business School chums - were proudly exhibiting their range of home escape ladders at a Chicago trade show. A buyer ...
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How would you get our of your house in a fire? We’ve heard of people saying they would tie bed sheets together and climb down or throw a mattress out a window and jump on it. “In reality there is not ...
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