Woodman, then 27, holed up in the house he shared in Moss Beach, Calif.
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To do so, Woodman hit the trade show circuit, starting at specialty sports exhibitions.
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"This is a victory nobody would have believed possible, " Survival campaigner Jo Woodman said in a statement.
Woodman conceived the idea in 2001 simply as a wrist strap that could tether already-existing cameras to surfers.
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Mrs Woodman was an 11-year-old girl when the Wright brothers made history with the first powered flight in 1903.
Five months into being a surf bum, a recharged Woodman returned to California with the seed of an idea.
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John Woodman, from the Friends of Fleetwood, said having the co-operation of the prison service was "a massive bonus".
Woodman says that the market he created is big enough for multiple companies.
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GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman rode the wave of the world's fastest growing camera company to become a billionaire.
One of his first observations: Woodman needed a camera durable enough to take the wear and tear of the sea.
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Woodman says that no one in the company has taken out a penny, giving him a very formidable war chest.
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Woodman started Funbug in 1999 as a gaming and marketing platform that gave users the chance to win cash prizes.
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Former Gloucester and Sale prop Trevor Woodman retired at the age of 29 in 2005 with a long-term back injury.
"The GoPro App gives our customers more creative control and convenience than ever before, " says Nicholas Woodman, GoPro founder and CEO.
It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything.
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It goes without saying that Woodman was a believer in GoPro, but it took time convincing people to share his sentiment.
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Unison regional organiser Andrew Woodman was critical of the planned job losses.
Close friend and current GoPro creative director Brad Schmidt met Woodman in Indonesia and became one of the first to toy with the strap.
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That was the first validation for Woodman, whose friends thought their former surfing buddy had held his breath underwater for a little too long.
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Woodman tested the first GoPro prototypes near these same icy waters.
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The first time I saw Nick Woodman, I immediately knew he was an outstanding entrepreneur who has the caliber to be very successful in this business.
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GoPro was first introduced to Gou through former Flextronics CEO Michael Marks, who had invested in GoPro through his venture fund at Riverwood Capital, said Woodman.
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Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted.
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Woodman received his 3-D models and renderings a few months later and sold his first product in September 2004 at an action-sports trade show in San Diego.
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This surprised Dr Bridget Woodman of the Warwick Business school.
High quality education, argued Lauren Woodman, General Manager of Partners in Learning at Microsoft (representing Anthony Salcito) went beyond the provision of broadband to the provision of high quality content.
TheVerge's Joshua Topolsky moderated an "Argue the Future" SuperSession on Wednesday that featured Drew Bamford of HTC, Ryan Bidan of Samsung, Nilay Patel of The Verge and Aaron Woodman of Microsoft.
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Spending 18 hour days at his desk, Woodman went from drilling pieces together for prototypes to making 3 AM phone calls to China to obtain the right parts for his camera.
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Between sewing together old wetsuit material and drilling holes in raw plastic, Woodman was constantly trolling online and at trade shows for a camera he could modify and license as his own.
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