While the iPod was not the product of an entrepreneurial company, it has helped to spawn a whole industry for entrepreneurs looking to create new products around the huge demand for this new technology.
From Yahoo News:
One company, Delarew Designs, is offering a line of handbags that sport built-in iPod pockets and holes on the ends for the music player’s headphone wires.
Another, Bluelounge, has created the Cableyoyo, an inexpensive cable caddy, which literally rounds up wires and stores them out of the way.
Still others are marketing different types of protective coverings for the music player.
These are just a few of the great examples of how entrepreneurs do not have to be the creator of a break-through technology like iPod to take advantage of the market that it creates.
(Thanks to Annie Whiting for passing this along).