Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Ford’s Model T cost just $260 ($3,700 in today’s dollars) and Ford held 60% of the U.S. auto market.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work. Almost half of them left the workforce and never worked again. And he’s right.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 6, 2018
What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models. University of Michigan turned Giving Tuesday into Giving Blueday, and they used it to raise $5.5 million last year. In the old power model, we'd say, "Cease and desist.”
Haystack
MAY 4, 2019
Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. Today, I am excited to share some data on the Haystack portfolio as it relates to geography.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
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Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
what distribution channel? Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. what’s the product? Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2011
I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. I believe in maxing out tax advantageous vehicles like the 401(k) and Roth IRA, and dollar cost investing over time in no to low load mutual funds, including index funds. Same as above.
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