A business model is not a business plan. It is a set of hypotheses about how your business creates, delivers, and captures value. These articles cover how to design, stress-test, and iterate on your business model using the Lean Canvas.
17 articles · 10 videosLet me know if this sounds familiar… Say you have a promising new idea. To get the green light to move forward, you are often asked to write an elaborate 30-page business plan, complete with a 5-ye...
Have you ever written a Business Plan? Did you enjoy the process?
Sketching an idea on a [Lean Canvas](/tools/lean-canvas) is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Later links rely on earlier links, and cracks in your early links have a ripple effect. This is why ...
Too many entrepreneurs prematurely rush to launch their product, join an incubator/accelerator, or hit the pitching circuit only to realize months (or years) later that they were chasing too small ...
Walk into any investor’s office with the beginnings of a hockey-stick curve, and you’ll create a Pavlovian response where they’ll sit you down and try to understand your business model.
A Lean Canvas is a 1-page [business modeling](https://www.leanfoundry.com/topics/business-modeling) tool that helps you deconstruct an idea into key assumptions or beliefs.
A question I get a lot is: **Why isn’t the Lean Canvas laid out more logically?** Anyone that has attempted to fill one can relate. You must jump around from box to box in seemingly random order.
Pricing is one of the riskiest assumptions on the Lean Canvas (Revenue Stream).
Several variations of the lean and business model canvases are now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. However, the lean canvas is still the best way for a non-profit to understand...
Entrepreneurs are typically more passionate about their solution than any other part of the business model, which, left unchecked, can become a problem. While building a product is what you do best...
The first battle for any product is getting noticed by customers.
It’s easy to see the perils of going too broad with a new product: When you try to market to everyone, you reach no one. This is why the customer segment box on the Lean Canvas is further broken in...
Communicating defensibility against copycats and competition is critical when pitching your [business model](https://www.leanfoundry.com/topics/business-modeling) to investors and key stakeholders.
Patterns are everywhere. We use patterns in architecture, design, software, chess, and cooking.
What is the one thing that both investors and entrepreneurs care about? It’s growth or traction.
I often get asked why I created a different adaptation from the original Business Model Canvas by Alex Osterwalder. Lately, this question has bubbled up in frequency which is why I decided to take ...
