Last week, I wrote about the Value Proposition, one of the nine building blocks in Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas. The Business Model Canvas provides a simple, one-page draft of a ...

To be successful, a business needs to have a plan for revenue in the short term and profitability in the long. Early-stage founders might be tempted to come up with half a dozen ways the company could ...

When edtech entrepreneurs hustle and undertake a fruitful customer discovery process, product pilots are easy to come by. Scaling, however, can be tough going. In five years of advising edtech ...

Not all business plans need to be lengthy. In fact, the most important part of a business plan is probably the executive summary, a concise breakdown that explains the value proposition, ideal ...

Challenging a central assumption of start-up culture, Swiss business theorist Alexander Osterwalder in Colombo argued ...

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Leaders often encourage their teams to think big and be more disruptive—but to follow through, people need new tools. We believe that learning how to design exponential business models is a discipline ...

Working on the business model is a fundamental part of pretty much every "lean startup" program, which makes it a fundamental part of pretty much every accelerator and incubator. Research from INSEAD ...

Business models define how companies earn revenue, including methods like subscriptions. Understanding a company's business model helps investors assess potential profitability. Different industries ...