The Overlooked Near-Fatal Flaw
Entrepreneur|October 2017

What happens when your product goes from beloved to hated? As Hanson Grant learned, your customers may be seeing something you aren’t.

Jason Feifer
The Overlooked Near-Fatal Flaw

Hanson Grant was sitting in his dorm room at Babson College, trying to figure out how to write on the walls. “I couldn’t drill holes to set up a whiteboard, and I couldn’t paint my walls with dry-erase paint,” he says. “So I thought, What if I could peel and stick a whiteboard on the wall?” That led him to develop a film that affixes to surfaces, turning almost anything, even his desk or closet, into a dry-erase board. He raised $10,100 on Kickstarter. A local NBC news story brought in 200 orders overnight through a website he set up. USA Today, the Today show, and others followed, fueling growth.

この記事は Entrepreneur の October 2017 版に掲載されています。

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この記事は Entrepreneur の October 2017 版に掲載されています。

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