business models posts, articles, and infographics

The 10 Key Questions your Business Model Must Address

April 12, 2011 by Bob Apollo
with 610 views

It’s becoming obvious that narrowly-focused business models based around the traditional “4Ps” of Product, Price, Place and Promotion have failed to keep pace with the complexities of today’s business climate. If your organisation is involved in high-value, complex B2B sales environments, I’d like to suggest 10 key questions that... [read more]

You Can’t Eat Truth Either … But it Still Matters- Paying Bloggers, Entrepreneurship and Business Models

March 28, 2011 by Tim Berry
with 125 views

As blogger, former full-time journalist, and long-term entrepreneur, I’m offended from all three sides by journalists complaining that bloggers don’t get paid on the Huffington Post. I’m offended by the envy. The money Arianna Huffington and her investors made on the sale of Huffington Post to AOL was classic entrepreneurship, earned... [read more]

Business Model Demands Patience

March 28, 2011 by Jeff Cornwall
with 126 views

Author and entrepreneur Steve Blank describes the business start-up process as having two phases.In the first, entrepreneurs learn about their customers and what they want. This can be thought of as a series of experiments with real customers. It eventually leads to a business model that can be used to build a sustainable venture.Once we... [read more]

Social media 2009 and beyond

December 20, 2009 by Kate Carruthers
with 536 views

2009 ranks as both the year that social media went mainstream and as the year that we saw a seismic shift in the comfortable world of traditional media. Some evidence of the former is the fact that Dell made $6.5 million in direct sales via Twitter. Further evidence is the rise of the social media job, with titles like Emerging Media... [read more]

Sharpening the Saw for 2010

December 14, 2009 by Jeff Cornwall
with 205 views

There are two resources that I would like to recommend that provide some insight on how to prepare for what looks like another difficult year in 2010. One has an unconventional title and the other is unconventional in almost every way you can think of, but both offer important ways to help entrepreneurs sharpen their saws.... [read more]

Are there no new business models?

June 15, 2009 by Tac Anderson
with 164 views

So if you haven’t heard Chris Anderson revealed the business model of the future of the Web. (via TechCrunch) “Everything that becomes digital will become free. There will be a free version, either you will be competing with free or giving it away for free and selling something else. If it is not zero today, it will be zero tomorrow.”... [read more]

Thinking about business models

May 5, 2009 by Seth Godin
with 120 views

A business model is the architecture of a business or project. It has four elements: What compelling reason exists for people to give you money? (or votes or donations) How do you acquire what you're selling for less than it costs to sell it? What structural insulation do you have from relentless commoditization and a price war? How... [read more]

How Unconventional Is Your Thinking?

March 27, 2008 by Jay Deragon
with 152 views

Conventional business thinking has been focused on producing, distributing, marketing, selling and serving customers with unique value propositions and messages. Conventional business models have been centered around structured organizational designs aimed at optimizing productivity, controlling cost and improving quality. Conventional... [read more]

Business Models

January 28, 2008 by Dick Costolo
with 37 views

It's time to take up that new year's resolution to post more often and crank out my q1 post. There's been some discussion in the tech blogosphere about startups and their need to have a clear business model, and some confusion from entrepreneurs about why it's ok for some businesses not to have known business models when they are... [read more]

Just Gas

December 28, 2007 by Brad Feld
with 65 views

Creating companies from scratch is really difficult. Every successful entrepreneur knows the daily challenges and struggles that conspire against him. Sometimes the entrepreneur thinks to himself "there must be an easier way." A long time friend and successful entrepreneur - Steve Munroe - provides a creative solution... [read more]

Three Answers from the Web 2.0 Summit

October 29, 2007 by Sam Decker
with 69 views

I couldn't make the Web 2.0 Summit a couple weeks ago, but my colleague Jay Hallberg (Co-founder and VP of Marketing for Spiceworks) was there and answered my top three questions: If I were a brand company.... top three things... that would help my business: 1) Web 2.0 is moving into 'adulthood' and changing industries. There was... [read more]

Enterprise 2.0 … Show me the ROI

October 28, 2007 by SaaStream
with 63 views

While Enterprise 2.0 is often described as “web 2.0 meets the enterprise”, what Enterprise 2.0 encompasses is much bigger. Enterprise 2.0 represents a radical change in the way businesses operate and is as much about the people, the culture and the processes as it is about the technology, tools and platforms. More than simply Web 2.0... [read more]