Business Models Posts

The History Of Lean Startup

Lean Startup is full of competing thought-leaders and consultants, so I wrote this post to help you make sense of it all.

Using business model design to raise more for charity

I used to have heavy metal hair. Then I shaved my head for charity. I didn’t have any organised campaign to back me, so relied on some newly learned skills ...

Expanding through partnerships

Bulgarian startups, like those in many other European countries, continually face a problem: growing beyond our local markets.

Accelerator Design - 5 Questions That Define Success

The accelerator business is moving fast, and everyone is figuring it out as we go. Accelerators are quickly becoming more diverse, the contexts accelerators ...

Two accelerator design approaches I admire

I’ve worked with 20 accelerators over the last year and I’ve noticed two approaches I admire, Just Do It and Challenge The Model. Just Do It, then Iterate (J...

First, seek to understand.

Whether it’s negotiation, mediation or even international politics, we know it’s important to first seek to understand the other side. When launching a busin...

How investors gauge your opportunity - beyond your business model.

I ran an experiment to challenge if the Business Model Canvas actually enables founders to communicate their business models more succinctly. At Leancamp Dub...

The future of Lean Startup - 9 areas I'm watching for faster market traction

Lean Startup’s great strength is that it evolves – it shows its practitioners what really works and what doesn’t. This makes Leancamp work - Leancamp creates...

Business model trigger questions - a way to spot viable options quickly

When it comes to business models, a lot of founders tend to copy blindly. It used to be SaaS and Freemium, now it’s marketplace and co-creation. Yet the busi...

Founder-centric workshop notes /by @maxua

Lately, I’ve been doing one-day workshops, based on the Foundation Skills day at Founder-Centric, with different accelerators around Europe. The goal of this...

For us, by us. Lessons learned from validating the Leancamp model.

Since the first Leancamp, it’s been clear it built community.  The problem has been that it is more expensive than a Barcamp, so the sponsorship model has be...

If it can't scale, can it spread?

Since the beginning of Leancamp, I’ve been looking for a way to make the unconference model financially-independent – with the goal of synthesizing its commu...

Everything Is A Remix. Inspiring videos about building on previous innovation. #leanstartup

Great weekend watching, not just for content businesses or creative types. Feels a bit like a modern version of The Manual by the KLF. It also got me thinki...

Web Business Models, Lean Startup & The Missionary Position.

via vimeo.com A  talk I gave at The Hacker News meetup in London, to inspire hackers to hack their business models too. Posted via email from I'm Sal

Industry Models: Design Secrets From The Fashion Business

As New Media matures, where will you stand? There are strong, underlying parallels between New Media and Fashion. Leading designers make decisions that trick...