Fábrica de Startups: Discoveries Travel and Tourism Startup Accelerator
Smart Business Modeler collaborated with Fábrica de Startups to pilot our venture creation and coaching platform as FabStart Academy, premiered by the Discoveries Travel and Tourism Startup Accelerator 2019 program. Discoveries: Travel and Tourism Startup Accelerator Discoveries is an intensive…
Your Startup Funding Needs
The startup financing cycle is one of the most challenging aspects of launching a new business. How do you evaluate your startup liquidity? How do you measure your startup funding needs? Calculate your answer to these questions with our three-step-model below or with our new Cash Flow Calculator…
Sustainable Business Models: A New Logic for Value Creation
Unlocking the full potential of companies to solve ecological, social, and economic problems requires more than new products. It requires a new logic to how companies create, deliver, and capture value through the development and integration of sustainable business models. Today we introduce the…
The (Magic of the) Scalable Business Model: Growth vs. Scaling
Scalability has become a buzzword, yet not everyone understands what a scalable business model actually means and few understand the actual drivers. In this brain snack, we close that gap. Photo by Bill Jelen on Unsplash Growing vs. Scaling Scalability as such refers to the degree to which…
Business Model Brain Snack: Revenue Models and Pricing Strategies
How to monetize your product or service is a critical and difficult question, especially for increasingly digital business models. Today we explore how to develop monetization logics by combining pricing strategies and revenue models. Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash Unfortunately, many people…
Business Model Brain Snack: Advertising
Every time you open Facebook or other social media websites, you probably notice a large amount of ads that are displayed. With these small “announcements” Facebook and Google generated more than half of all U.S digital ad revenue in 2017! Reason enough for us to explore the advertising revenue…
Venture Creation Workshop
The Smart Business Modeler was invited to guide and inspire 25 teams at the 7th edition of BET24 Startup Challenge 1.0. What are investors looking for? Exactly – significant return potential at minimum risk. However, “risk” is a broad term compared to the five specific startup failures investors…
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop
The Smart Business Modeler guided 60 international students on an Urban Innovation Workshop with the aim of agilely learning more about innovation and venture creation. Alina Margolina opened the session with a keynote on what is business model innovation and how a pattern-based approach can…
Business Model Brain Snack: Multi-sided Platform
Think about readers and advertisers in the newspaper Metro or searchers and advertisers on Google, do you see the pattern? They are connected on a Multi-sided platform, a powerful business model pattern in which two customers are the product of each other. But what is exactly happening on a…
Business Model Brain Snack: Crowdsourcing
Who hasn’t heard about the ‘power of the crowd’? But what does that mean? Today’s business model brain snack digs into crowdsourcing. What we can already say now: regardless of size or industry, crowdsourcing and co-creation are great tools to create value in the digital era. Photo by William…