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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Deliver Big Impact on a Small Budget

Harvard Business Review

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. In 2010, Ben's Friends got too big and costly to fund ourselves so we turned to crowdfunding.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

The North American telecom carriers are also forced to make huge investments to upgrade their network to support more video and faster data services. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. The trend is spreading.