January 7, 2012 by startupengineering . Business Model Generation by Osterwalder and Pigneur, with its nine-bucket “business model canvas,” sits on the work tables at virtually every startup working at Flashpoint, and at desks and worktables and night tables around the globe, wherever people are dreaming up or implementing startups. The

January 7, 2012 by startupengineering. The business model canvas has become ubiquitous in startup environments, but has yet to develop much traction as an analytical tool in larger organizations.[1] That’s ironic, because using the canvas at a large organization is much more straightforward. To use it productively in

January 11, 2012 by startupengineering . As discussed in previous posts, the business model canvas works differently for existing businesses than it does for startups. For an existing business, the contents of each box need to be a clear description of how business is actually conducted. It doesn’t follow, though,

February 1, 2012 by startupengineering . The last few posts point to ways of thinking about and using the business model canvas. Follow those instructions, and what are you still missing? Here are five answsers: You don’t get the transition. If you’ve built a working caterpillar (that is, designed