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		squeed on Sept 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The $700 Million Yogurt Startup Chobani got an old factory that Kraft was letting go. Tesla got the GM NUMMI factory for pennies on the dollar, too. It would do these large companies well to hand old factories over to internal skunk-works teams to tinker first.

SoftwareMaven on Sept 8, 2011 | [–]

That would require cannibalizing your own products, the definition of the innovator's dilema.

oldstrangers on Sept 8, 2011 | [–]

Companies that large already have dedicated tinker factories. In GM's case, they have tinker ... reservations.

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