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Final Class - 20/03 - YOUR Business Model

The outcome of today's session:

Crowdsource validation of your Business Model

Business Model vs. Business Plan

"In the New Economy it means: What does a company do? How does a company uniquely do it? In what way (ways) does the company get paid for doing it? How much gross margin does the company earn per average unit sale?"

Business Model Generation - a handbook (there is a free online version).

Validation:

1. Customer sources - sources risks

2. Revenue sources - risks

3. Additional revenue opportunities

4. Business differentiation

5. E-business attributes - online sources of customers + revenues

6. Realistic Growth + sustainability

7. Social responsibility component

Have a colleague take notes online for you...

Crowdsource Final Assignment

Very exciting - use of the Groundswell....

For our last meeting on 20/03, we will do a crowdsource session - using your real or planned projects as the business model samples.

Please prepare and post by 17/03 (St. Patrick's Day):

1. Your project's business model - focus

-target customers

-revenue sources

-problems solved - customers, owner, partners

-what makes this project unique - differentiate from current offerings

-why it will work

Use a visual framework, so that the group can 'see' your plan - not a PPT,

not a lot of bla bla.

Read this interview and see and excellent example of the start up business process.

2. Identify problems - issues

During the class, the group will:

1. Clarify the models

2. Clarify the issues - offer smart solutions

3. Recommend ways to 'stretch' - grow customers, revenues

Using a Seedcamp style - the outcome should be a Business Model and supporting plan that could be funded by investors.

The session + results will only be as good as you, the group, make it.

Business Model Structure

Blyk: Business Model Innovation in the Mobile Industry

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Last.FM business model - Free service for locating and notating research papers

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View This Slideshare before 27/02 Class - Prep for In Class Exercise

Now that you are Community Sites experts - we are going to stretch the business model concepts to include social responsibility.

Please view the Slideshare below...and be prepared to imagine how Boo and TripWolf could add a social ROI to their respective business models.

If you are not familiar with TED - you should be. A TED talk is embedded in the Slideshare.

Business Models Beyond Profit - Social Entrepreneurship Lecture

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Prep for Class 27/02 - Community Sites

1.You have already read the article '9 Business Models of the Web'

2. Look through both sites below. Do a comparative analysis, using the Business Model Analyisis guidelines

>www.tripwolf.com

>www.boo.com

3. Be sure to include 2 competitor links in the posting. They do not have to be travel communities.

4. Your analysis must include the unique revenue opportunities for community sites

5. Please post by Friday 26/02 PM.