Business Models for Entrepreneurs

Over the past decade, the attention toward Business Models is increasingly growing. Start-upers, investors, large corporations, etc… are questioning this topic. The reason is that the business model is a very powerful tool that can disrupt an existing market and contribute to the competitive advantage of an innovator! However, many companies fail to recognize the potential threat coming from a novel business model of incumbents. This short white paper intends to provide an overview of what the business model is and to guide readers through the challenging business model design process by giving them some recommendations. 

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Bjoern Herrmann: Benchmarking Female Startups

Video interview with Bjoern Herrmann.  Bjoern is the 26 year-old founder of the Startup Genome. One year ago he & his team set out to find a scalable way to accelerate businesses across the world. After releasing two research reports on success & failure of startups that were downloaded 25,000 times he most recently released the first software product that is best described as a virtual mentor for now more than 13,000 software businesses. The published research has been adopted by more than 50 universities globally -including Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard Business School Professor Thomas Eisenmann called the findings an important contribution. You can try the product at Startup Compass Genome and learn more about the research at their blog. Before, Bjoern founded and led 4 for and nonprofit ventures in Germany, Bangladesh & the US. He also worked as an executive in Russia for one year for a mid sized marketing company. His personal passion or “leitmotif” is: unleashing human potential. His higher purpose is to strive to maximize the capitalization of every single individual. You can find Bjoern on Twitter @bjoernlasse

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