Entrepreneur faces uphill climb in a quest to take out competition

Jon Sjostedt, behind One Gutter Guard, seeks his aha moment.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. July 19, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Jon Sjostedt co-founded Palm Harbor-based Universal Manufacturing & Design, which manufactures One Gutter Guard, in 2015. Â
Mark Wemple. Jon Sjostedt co-founded Palm Harbor-based Universal Manufacturing & Design, which manufactures One Gutter Guard, in 2015. Â
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The gutter industry isn’t high on most entrepreneurs’ lists of sexy and sizzling businesses to grab onto.   

But Jon Sjostedt and Bobby Jackson, after more than 20 years in medical device and products, believe gutters are ripe for disruption. The pair aims to prove it with One Gutter Guard, their recently patented product that uses an interchangeable mesh — a technological innovation in gutter guard design — that helps solve gutter clogging problems.

 

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