Posts Tagged ‘business model design’

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Don’t Acquire Customers, Manufacture Them
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Don’t Acquire Customers, Manufacture Them

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

What’s the easiest way to grow your company? Acquire customers,right?
I used to live by that philosophy when I first became an entrepreneur, but acquiring them can be very expensive when you are first starting out. Plus, how do you know what customers you should be acquiring?

Innovation teams need generalists
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Innovation teams need generalists

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

A startup, whether entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial, is a hunt for product-market fit and a scalable business model. You need that hunt to be as fast and nimble as possible.

Starting Over
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Starting Over

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it’s your top-selling product.

Paul Graham of Y Combinator
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Combining Business Model Prototyping, Customer Development, and Social Entrepreneurship
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Combining Business Model Prototyping, Customer Development, and Social Entrepreneurship

Friday, September 10th, 2010

In a nutshell, this post shall help entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs develop better business models by designing and exploring multiple alternatives, closely listening to customers and continuously adapting their early models until they find the right business model to scale. I believe a start-up or new venture’s quest for the right business model should consist of three rough phases: