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Article: Beating the odds. (growth of Norris Communications Corp.) (Company Profile)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 3, 1992
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Woody Norris combines the vision of an inventor with the balance sheet of a businessman
Even as an electronics-crazed kid growing up in western Maryland, Elwood "Woody" Norris knew he wanted to be an inventor. Not the stereotypical tinkerer, mind you, puttering around a crowded laboratory with contraptions that never reach completion, dodging bills and subsisting on fast food. No, he wanted to make his inventions pay off.
With revenues rapidly growing from his company, Poway-based Norris Communications Co., and more expected from a hot new earphone that has a backlog of orders in the tens of thousands, Norris is living his dream.
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