2018-04-07

  • Can we achieve the customer value created by our existing product, “Laboratory,” at a lower cost?

  • What is the customer value being generated?

    • A type of knowledge acquisition that cannot be acquired by reading books alone
    • Discussion from various perspectives
  • Where costs are involved

    • Physical Space
    • Schedule coordination costs to physically assemble
  • Discussions on Facebook like this

    • Are we achieving the value we are looking for?

    • Is gate (barriers to entry) necessary?

    • There are fairly high barriers to entry for regular labs. Academics and high tuition fees

      • Higher to cover the costs of university faculty and administrative departments.
    • Some online salons use money as the only barrier to entry.

      • About 10,000 yen per month
    • On the other hand, there are no barriers to entry for the above-mentioned spur-of-the-moment discussions on Facebook.

      • Really?
        • The ability to post something in response to Nishio’s post that I feel would be beneficial from my perspective.
          • Something like, “That’s wonderful, I agree.” is not beneficial.
          • Ability to have a different point of view & state it logically.
          • Isn’t this a pretty high hurdle?
    • If there is a gate and an NDA, we can discuss matters that are ongoing and cannot be disclosed to the public in an unspecified manner.

  • If you have to make it or not, you better make it.

    • You don’t make it, you don’t learn anything.
  • If it’s a question of whether or not to have a gate, we should have a gate.

    • Creating a group without a gate doesn’t seem like a new learning experience.
    • Important to be able to tie it up in an NDA and talk off the record.
    • If it’s a story that can be made public, you can write it on your Wall, not talk about it in a corner like that.
  • So what kind of gate to build?

    • plan
      • Tokyo Tech MOT students may participate.
      • Students of the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo are also acceptable.
        • Scheduled to speak on 4/17.
        • Bridging students from different universities leads to value
      • Adopters of IPA Unexplored Projects
      • Other persons specially approved by Nishio
        • Specifically, I assume people who have posted constructive opinions about my posts on Facebook.
      • paid account
        • I’ll have to think a bit more about whether or not to ant this.
        • It is not very necessary to earn money, but it is useful as a measure of the value we provide to society.
        • I am going to try a virtual secretarial service for a month for another matter, so if I can raise the cost of that, it will be sustainable.
        • Paid plans for Slack can also be implemented.
          • →I quit the paid account. I think that if there are too many people who say, “I paid for it, so I’m a customer,” it might not be in the direction I intended.
  • echo


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