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ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd

How I Built This · 3 Dec 2018 · 51m

What this episode covers

Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder of ActOne Group, explains how she started a staffing agency in Beverly Hills with $1,500, eventually merging with her husband Bernie’s company to create a billion-dollar workforce management firm. She details the strategic decision to certify as a minority-owned business to access corporate contracts and the pivot to selling internal technology solutions rather than just services. In the postscript, Ofer and Helene Webman describe prototyping the ToneWood Amp, a battery-powered device that attaches to acoustic guitars, using a janky initial build of sponges and tape before launching a successful Kickstarter campaign.

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early-stage companies and companies scaling up

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Companies
ActOne Group, Billboard, AppleOne
Products
ToneWood Amp
Also
Kickstarter

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