Techshop Closes Doors, Files Bankruptcy
I worked for them as an instructor, course developer, and general staff mentor for a while at one location. My opinion is that this isn&#x27;t a failure of the model as much as it is a failure of strategy, management, and opportunity exploitation.<p>They flat out saw the tools as their only asset which was an almost criminal mistake. They utterly undervalued the potential of their educational group and bled them dry out of a misguided attempt to focus on a core competency that was already not working. It left new people with limited ability to develop new projects and the use of new tools as they learned new competencies. They provided a service that too few people new how to make value of. They waited for the world to come to them, and it never did in sufficient numbers.