Business - Written by Don Tapscott on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 17:34 - 3 Comments
18-year-old kid designs, manufactures, and sells product in 24 days
We’ve written before about Ponoko, the on-demand manufacturing service for everyday people. As a follow-up, I thought I’d share a story that was recently sent to me about how 18-year-old Alan Chao turned an idea into winning product in just 24 days. According to the Ponoko case study, Alan made his first set of coasters for $39.33, within 4 hours of generating the idea; 24 days later he made his first sale. Within 8 weeks Alan got picked up by Veer. A great success story related to Prosumerism and the Net Generation.
Click here to watch the video (or register for the complete case study).
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Adam Carson
Hi Don,
Thanks for the great find!! This on-demand manufacturing is awesome…can’t wait until I can do it in my garage as well 
Adam
I’m so happy to hear what a success this has been for Ponoko and Alan. I read about Ponoko on the Springwise newsletter and posted it to my Veer profile page: http://ideas.veer.com/post/2475.
I shot a quick letter to our Merch Specialist. She loved it! She got the ball rolling and did all the work and purchasing.
This is a fabulous idea and I’m so delighted to hear it’s going so well! Congratulations!
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