Cost Distribution Lean Michigan 
Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. 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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 6, 2018
It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2020
And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. And we at the time made it $1,000 because that was around the cost of serving one of those units.
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.
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.
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