Entrepreneurship Flashcards
Activities you need to do to make your business model work.
Key activities
Should focus on fulfilling its value proposition, reaching installer, segments & maintaining customer relationships, & generating revenue
Key activities
What are three categories of key activities
Production, problem-solving, platform/ network
Designing manufacturing & delivering a product in significant quantities/ or of superior quality
Production
Finding new solutions to individual problems faced by customers
Problem-solving
Creating & maintaining platforms. For example, Microsoft provides a reliable operating system to support third-party software products
Platform/network
Where you list down which key resources on the main inputs you need to carry out your key activities in order to create your value proposition
Key resources
Four types of key resources
Human (employees), financial (crash, lines of credit, etc.), intellectual (brand, patents, IP, copyright), physical (equipment, inventory buildings)
External companies or suppliers that will help you carry out your key activities. These partnerships are forged in order to reduce risks & acquire resources
Key partners
Types of partnerships
Strategic alliance, competition, joint ventures, buyer-supplier relationships
Partnership between non-competitors
Strategic alliance
Strategic partnership between competitors
coopetition
Partners developing a new business
Joint ventures
Ensure reliable supplies
Buyer-supplier relationships
focus on evaluating the cost of creating and delivering your value propositions, creating revenue streams, and maintaining customer relationships.
Cost structure
Focuses on minimizing costs whenever possible
Cost-driven
Focuses on providing maximum value to the customer
Value-driven
- The value we deliver to the customer
- an innovation, service, or feature intended to make a company or product attractive to customers.
a particular means by which a company or individual generates revenue on an ongoing basis. What value our customers are willing to pay
- Asset sales
- usage fee
- subscription fee
- lending/leasing/renting
- licensing
- brokerage fees
- advertising
The people, organizations, & activities that make goods & services available for use by consumers
Marketing channel
Describes the method by which a customer moves from the producer to the consumer.
Channel
By the word itself, channel serves as a bridge to those a variables, what are those two?
Direct & indirect distribution channel
The manufacturer sells directly to the customer
Direct distribution channel
Involve multiple intermediaries before the product ends up in the hands of the consumer
Indirect distribution channel