{"id":12573,"date":"2009-12-17T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2009-12-17T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T07:13:44","slug":"rick-alden-entrepreneur-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"Rick Alden: Entrepreneur Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sia09-118.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sia09-118.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=751,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sia09-118-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sia09-118\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/magazine\/entrepreneur\/2010\/january\/204384.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has named <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skullcandy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skullcandy<\/a><\/strong> founder and CEO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=%22rick+alden%22\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Alden<\/a><\/strong> their Entrepreneur of 2009 based on reader voting online.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspiration hit Rick Alden on a chairlift, during a snowboarding trip in 2001. The iPod had just been introduced, but none of the headphones were designed to appeal to the iPod-toting action-sports crowd. It was time to change the game. . . Alden, now 45, is riding high. 2008 revenue topped $86 million, and 2009 was expected to reach $120 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9481\" target=\"_blank\">months ago<\/a><\/strong>, but we think we voted for Rick. You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/magazine\/entrepreneur\/2010\/january\/204384.html\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur Magazine has named Skullcandy founder and CEO Rick Alden their Entrepreneur of 2009 based on reader voting online. Inspiration hit Rick Alden on a chairlift, during a snowboarding trip in 2001. The iPod had just been introduced, but none of the headphones were designed to appeal to the iPod-toting action-sports crowd. It was time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}