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B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. I first encountered the idea of developing a one-page business model in 2007 when I came across the Osterwalder model on the web.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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Five Rules for Innovating in a Shaky Economy

Harvard Business Review

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Management has made promises to senior executives about what a project will achieve, and fixed costs have built up because they looked prudent in comparison to planned revenues.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

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Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes

Harvard Business Review

Though you might not even be aware of the competitor that is attacking the music titan of the past decade, that iTunes business model is about to be blown up completely and swiftly. It was in your home, had no shelf space limiting its inventory, and could beat Tower on price because of its lower fixed costs.