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Heni Murhanayanti

20:45, Apr 12, 2012

Wow! that's great inspiration. I can see relation between customer segmens, value proposition, chanels, etc. Thanks.

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DeletedUser

07:39, Apr 01, 2012

This should be taught in the first few weeks of university business courses. I'm also a big fan of http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Business-Road-Test/dp/0273663569

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DeletedUser

02:59, Mar 22, 2012

Often, when being in the very early phases of your start-up, is is very time consuming to write a full business plan, and also sometimes not even possible to write a business plan in a realistic way, since you;re still tweaking your product or idea. Then you could start with the business model canvas, and later on get back to work on a business plan.

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DeletedUser

10:12, Mar 14, 2012

Owesome. Are these too the building block of a business plan? what is the difference?

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Emanuele Musa

14:24, Mar 14, 2012

Hi Sidi,
To my understanding this is an organic approach to the key deliverable of a business.

It cannot be a business plan because the planning part is actually missing (e.g. business environment analysis, industry background, competitor analysis, marketing plan, etc.). Instead it focuses on the key aspects of your business which need a strategy and clearly defined objectives.

Best regards

Manu

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DeletedUser

02:54, Mar 22, 2012

Indeed; you could use it as a brainstorming tool to come up with different business models, or use it to get a clear insight in your current model.
Later on you could one of those business models as a starting point to write a full business plan.

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Emanuele Musa

14:57, Mar 14, 2012

Great Break down, excellent video, open source approach. The creators need a standing ovation.

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DeletedUser

02:49, Mar 22, 2012

I agree. I actually bought their book about this canvas. I look at it every now and then to reflect on my work.

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DeletedUser

02:00, Mar 17, 2012

This is a wonderful video!

There's also an alternative business model canvas by OpenIDEO's own Tom Hulme, which includes things like growth strategy, and competitive strategy:

http://hackfwd.com/documents/Business%20Model%20Framework.pdf

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Amy Bonsall

07:40, Mar 17, 2012

You can also play around with that business model here: http://www.phase2generator.com/ Just be sure not to hit submit unless you want to sign up for HackFwd

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Arjan Tupan

12:03, Mar 14, 2012

Great inspiration. Having these tools available is wonderfully helpful for startups.

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DeletedUser

02:33, Mar 16, 2012

I agree, I love this tool Bram!

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OpenIDEO

13:37, Mar 15, 2012

Congrats on this post being today's onsite Featured Inspiration!

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Thomas Stone

10:02, Mar 14, 2012

Also the intersection of ideas from Osterwalder's "Business Model Generation" including, but not solely, the canvas with the ideas of Steve Blank's "Customer Development", Eric Ries's "Lean Startup" and others have been interesting to watch and see evolve.

See Alex Osterwalder's original blog post on this [http://goo.gl/kqoCp] and Steve Blank's post about his latest book [http://goo.gl/EcEuW] describing the canvas as the "scorecard" for customer discovery.

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