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This program is aimed at MIT's supply chain management degree, a pretty technical thing to know how to do, and one that can cost your company many millions of dollars very quickly if you mess up; it's the kind of thing that I would guess even a pretty wild entrepreneur would want some training at in many circumstances.

Michael Dell almost folded Dell early days over a supply chain problem in fact; he was pre-buying inventory for his computers, and got bitten by a technology change leaving him holding enough worthless inventory that it could have easily ended the company.

At any rate, if you're Dell, you want people thoroughly trained in this before they get to go muck up your new laptop deployment schedule; even a small screw up in a small part could mean major revenue problems.

MOST startup developer screwups aren't on that scale, which is one reason it can work well to just jump in like you are planning on doing.