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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

(Think of it this way: Cash, which can be spent in whichever way you choose, is highly fungible; people, whose specialized skills limit your options for deploying them, are less fungible.) Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

For example, if youre just here to sell sugar-water, then "innovating" slightly new flavors of soda every few months, and finding novel markets to "sell" it in (read: competencies in product innovation and mass marketing) is probably good enough.