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. Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan, in 1947. The company closed in 1931.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 14, 2013
Enter “ Customer Sense: How the 5 Senses Influence Buying Behavior “ by University of Michigan professor Aradhna Krishna. Also known as haptics, one’s sense of touch is distributed across one’s skin and mouth (via the cutaneous system) unlike other more focused senses.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 6, 2014
An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. B corp, or Benefit Corporation.
Brandanew
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. It is the first brewpub set up in Ann Arbor and the fifth in Michigan. But our partner, Gaurav was from U of M (University of Michigan) and had spent a lot of time at the Brewpub. It’s what we like.
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.
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.
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