CAn big business be built on breakthrough product?

A profile of Elcom Technologies, manufacturer of plug-in devices that enable household electrical circuitry to carry video, audio, voice and data signals, is presented. The company was founded by Rob Vito, Myr Jones and Charles Abraham. Private placements have raised $18 million for Vito and his Elc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Inc. (Boston, Mass.) Mass.), 1996-11, Vol.18 (16), p.17
1. Verfasser:	Finegan, Jay
Format:	Magazinearticle
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Company business management Corporate profiles Digital transmission Electric equipment Electric equipment industry Electrical equipment and supplies Electrical equipment and supplies industry Electrical machinery Electronics industry Entrepreneurs Executives Management Personal profiles Private placement Product development Startups Technology Vito, Rob
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Zusammenfassung:	A profile of Elcom Technologies, manufacturer of plug-in devices that enable household electrical circuitry to carry video, audio, voice and data signals, is presented. The company was founded by Rob Vito, Myr Jones and Charles Abraham. Private placements have raised $18 million for Vito and his Elcom partners. In the 3 years since Abraham cracked the code for sending digital signals over household electrical wiring, Vito has struggled with a classic entrepreneurial challenge: how to turn an apparently astonishing breakthrough technology into a viable business. So far, Elcom has overcome early industrywide skepticism.
ISSN:	0162-8968