Miscellaneous Writings
The conquest of the galaxy is advancing, and we need expendable minions for the planned Valco Death Star. In other words, to be the world's nicest evil corporation and to serve our customers better, we have decided to open a...
NL25 Earbuds: On the Path to Greatness
The NL25 is an earbud that, modestly put, is better than all other (in the same price range) earbuds combined – excellent sound quality, designed by the world-renowned Jussi Timonen, physical buttons (because touch controls are annoying), and the latest chipset technology.
Valco Oy remains committed to investments in Puolanka despite strikes
Finland's leading manufacturer of Valco brand noise-cancelling headphones, Valco Oy, announces that the company will continue its plans to invest in Puolanka, despite the political strikes shaking the whole country.
Markus Eronen becomes a significant catalyst for Valco with a substantial capital investment.
Valco Oy, a leading Finnish headphone manufacturer, announces it has received a significant investment from Markus Eronen, the former owner of the electrical supply wholesale company EL-Parts Oy. The goal of Eronen's investment is to enable the long-cherished dreams of Valco's founders, from top-class sports cars and large gold watches to majestic boats.
Press release: Valco has decided to invest in a factory in Puolanka
Valco is a leading domestic headphone manufacturer that has been noted in several places. The company supplies headphones and other audio devices globally on a turnkey basis. The project designed by Valco is expected to create five to ten million jobs in Finland in the long term.
Treats from our customer survey
Again in May, we put out a customer survey to subscribers of the newsletter. The result was like throwing bread to the bulls. We do not know why or how, but a very long questionnaire containing a variety of stupid questions was answered by almost 2 000 people, which, as a sample, is already enough to predict the election of the next president.
The aftermath of the death spiral (how the company didn't go bust after all)
As many who have followed Valco know, last year (2021) we had a really bad setback. Not only did the interest rate push up costs and we suffered delivery problems, but a large number of the headsets had a latent memory failure due to a component failure. A small component failure caused thousands of headphones to be recalled, customers were outraged (probably including you), and we were threatened with a death spiral.
The death spiral (or how the company almost went bust)
I hope this post reaches as many of you as possible, because we have quite a lot of explaining to do. 2020 went very well. At the end of the year, we launched the VMK20 headphones, which were not only...
The shittiest are the customers
Since last autumn (autumn 2017) I have been running this vague little online shop. Economically, this does not produce anything, but mentally, running your own small shop is quite a fun hobby. Customer service in general is a really nice...