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…
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…
Business Model Brain Snack: Open Innovation
In light of increasing complexity, decreasing product life cycles, and fast market change, what is one of the most cost-effective ways to innovate? Open innovation! Open innovation is a process business model pattern that enables cost reduction and accelerates time to market while creating novel…
Business Model Brain Snack: Dial down features
What is the best-kept secret to market disruption? Is innovation enough? Dial down features is one of the most common customer business model patterns, responsible for the success of industry leaders such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb. How? Forget the classic engineering perspective. It is not about…
Business Model Brain Snack: Pay with data
What do you know about the $21B location data economy? Did you know that location data companies pay 0,5–2 cents per user per month? Pay with data is one of the most revolutionary digital revenue models. How? Apps are at the center of this new economy. The mobile location industry started as a way…