This document summarizes the YEF Boot Camp 2019 program led by Dr. Vincent Kuo. It discusses common business problems and pitches from the past decade in Taiwan and why history often repeats itself. It also provides tools and frameworks for evaluating business ideas, including the business model canvas, lean canvas, risk evaluation, and product-market fit. The document stresses the importance of solving real problems for target customers and testing solutions before large-scale implementation.
13. Biz model Canvas does NOT tell
• it does not define what problems to solve.
• Value Proposition and Product are different!!
• Lack of competition and environment analysis.
• Biz Model Canvas is more about operations
especially for beginners.
• ……..These are very important Strategic Insights!!
21. Product Risk
• First make sure you have a problem worth solving
• Define the smallest possible solution (MVP)
• Demonstrate Unique Value Proposition
• Build MVP at small scale then verify at large scale
22. Customer Risk
• Identify who has the pain
• Then narrow down to early adopters who really want
your product
• It’s okay to start with outbound channels
• But gradually build/develop scalable inbound
channels
23. Market Risk
• Identify competition through existing alternative and
pick a price for your solution
• Test pricing first by measuring what customers say
• Then by what they do
• Optimize your cost structure to make the biz model
work
24.
25. ‘Standard’ multi-layer time-based format
Time
Market M 1 M 2
Product
P 1 P 2 P 3
P 4
Technology
T 1
T 3 T 4
T 2
R&D
programmes
RD 1 RD 2 RD 4 RD 6
RD 3 RD 5
Resources
Capital investment / finance
Staff / skills
Supply chain
Adapted from Groenveld, 1997
26. Time
Market M 1 M 2
Product
P 1 P 2 P 3
P 4
Technology
T 1
T 3 T 4
T 2
R&D
programmes
RD 1 RD 2 RD 4 RD 6
RD 3 RD 5
Resources
Capital investment / finance
Staff / skills
Supply chain
Where do
we want
to go?
Where are
we now?
How can
we get
there?
Adapted from Groenveld, 1997
Three fundamental questions
29. REVENUE STREAMS
what are customers really willing to pay for? how?
are you generating transactional or recurring revenues?
Source: <Sxsw New Rules for the New Bubble >, Steve Blank
30. 各種可能的營收
Unit Sales Advertising Fees Franchise fees Utility Fees
Subscription Fees Transaction Fees Professional Fees License Fees
Roadmaps take many forms. Perhaps the most generic is illustrated here, providing a high level graphical summary of an integrated strategic plan. A multi-layered time-based framework enables the strategic plans for whatever functions (or themes) are important. In this example, a market opportunity has been identified, with an aligned product strategy to ensure that the right product is developed at the right time. The strategic plan for technology can be developed, ensuring that the right technology is developed, starting with an focused research programme, supported by appropriate resources. The figure shows how ‘capability’ flows from bottom left to top right; there is an equally important flow in the other direction (requirements).
Roadmaps take many forms, but they all seek to answer three very simple questions (simple to pose, but unfortunately not simple to answer):
Where do we want to go as an organisation? (considering all layers of the roadmap)
Where are we now? (current situation, considering all layers of the roadmap)
How can we get there? (the roadmap provides a framework to allow a ‘course to be charted’, including the various routes, activities, milestones, targets, decision points, etc.