{"id":1636,"date":"2005-08-02T06:47:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2005-08-02T06:47:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T06:47:47","slug":"a_new_kind_of_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of Middleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20050701\/global-entrepreneur.html\">Roark Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But Noone&rsquo;s outlook couldn&rsquo;t be more global. He spends a typical weekend watching Chinese-language movies and listening to Chinese-language tapes. At least once a week he makes sure to eat with chopsticks. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to show people you&rsquo;re interested in their culture,&rdquo; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Noone is interested, all right. The 54-year-old entrepreneur is founder and CEO of Capacitor Industries, which imports low-cost electronic components from China and sells them to motor makers and other manufacturers in the U.S. and, increasingly, abroad. His stock-in-trade is capacitors: tiny devices that store charges, maintain electrical currents, keep motors running, and protect computers and communications equipment from surges. Every motor manufacturer needs a steady supply of them, which has helped send Noone&rsquo;s annual sales to $5 million.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roark Johnson: But Noone&rsquo;s outlook couldn&rsquo;t be more global. He spends a typical weekend watching Chinese-language movies and listening to Chinese-language tapes. At least once a week he makes sure to eat with chopsticks. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to show people you&rsquo;re interested in their culture,&rdquo; he says. Noone is interested, all right. The 54-year-old entrepreneur is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}