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Jan 6, 2022

2022: A Really New Year

2022 isn’t just a new year at Kitsbow, it’s a whole new beginning. Literally. On January 3, the community (investors local to North Carolina) and the employees purchased Kitsbow from its shareholders, with the commitment of majority ownership by employees into the future. This is huge. And a natural evolution…

B Corp

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2022: A Really New Year
2022: A Really New Year
B Corp

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Dec 24, 2021

Clarity on Christmas Eve

It’s Christmas Eve, and everyone at Kitsbow but the Old Fort Ride House crew is taking the day off to be with their families. They’ll take next week off too, because they’ve worked so hard all year. Kitsbow is silent and dark, after a very long 26 months. The Ride…

2021

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Clarity on Christmas Eve
Clarity on Christmas Eve
2021

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Oct 1, 2021

Remember When… “Supply Chain” Was Mysterious?

In the Before Times, most of us riding bikes and wearing clothes didn’t really understand what “Supply Chain” meant… or perhaps hadn’t even heard the term used before in regular conversation. That’s over. We all know what “Supply Chain” means now, whether your personal experience in 2020 was with a…

Apparel

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Remember When… “Supply Chain” Was Mysterious?
Remember When… “Supply Chain” Was Mysterious?
Apparel

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Jul 18, 2021

Artisan Makers

[A version of this post was originally provided at Kitsbow.com. I’m the CEO at Kitsbow, and I want to explain why each of our customers are truly connected to each of our Makers. These are the artisan craftspeople that are always more important than our machines. …

Made In Usa

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Artisan Makers
Artisan Makers
Made In Usa

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Jul 4, 2021

Why Build Community?

[A version of this post was originally provided at Kitsbow.com. I’m the CEO at Kitsbow, and there is an important component of what we do every day: we create jobs. In the sense that we train people to do the work that they initially are not qualified to do, and…

Kitsbow

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Why Build Community?
Why Build Community?
Kitsbow

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Jun 22, 2021

A Sense of Place

This Complicated, Resilient Place [A version of this post was originally provided at Kitsbow.com, with the expert editing assistance of Tim Clark and Bethany Donovan, my colleagues at Kitsbow. I’m the CEO at Kitsbow, and I’ve been ruminating for over a year on how to explain exactly why an apparel…

North Carolina

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A Sense of Place
A Sense of Place
North Carolina

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Mar 20, 2021

Kitsbow Update — Day 365 of PPE

Tomorrow, March 21, marks what we call “Day Zero” at Kitsbow Cycling Apparel. Of course those of you following us closely… you know by now that we really got started on Thursday March 19 last year, when we ordered plastic overnight express to make prototypes the next day. …

Entrepreneurship Ideas

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Kitsbow Update — Day 365 of PPE
Kitsbow Update — Day 365 of PPE
Entrepreneurship Ideas

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Nov 20, 2017

How to Recruit Talent (Stop Trying to Get Married on the First Date)

Almost by definition, every client I work with has plenty of experience finding employees, interviewing them, and hiring them. A few might even have experience firing them, but not often (and that’s a topic for a different day). So they’ve got the minimum qualifications to recruit, right? Um, well, not…

Hiring

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Hiring

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David Billstrom

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