by admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Business Model Design, Business Model Innovation, Business Model Secrets
Yipit’s analysis of Groupon’s declining hold on the daily deals space indicates lower customer engagement, fewer deals sold overall and falling average revenues per subscriber for the email deal industry leader. In light of the company’s looming IPO, do these changes...
by jim muehlhausen | Jul 29, 2011 | Business Model Design, Business Model Trends, Groupon, Web Business Models
Groupon claims that they are on target to make over $1 billion in sales faster than any other company. They have purchased similar one-day deal sites around the globe and re-branded them as international Groupon sites. In June of this year they filed with the SEC to...
by jim muehlhausen | Jun 13, 2011 | Business Model Design, Business Model Innovation, Business Model Tips, Business Ownership, Global Response, insourcing, Outsourced Call Center, Private Companies
Business model innovation is easier for some industries than others. In particular, technology business models tend to be easier to innovate because of the nature of technology itself. Staying ahead of the technology adoption curve is a necessary component of a...
by jim muehlhausen | Oct 26, 2010 | Business Model Design, Business Model Tips, horse racing, Secretariat
With the release of the movie “Secretariat” last week, the great race horse is again in the spotlight. Interestingly, there are several lessons business owners can learn from Secretariat. Owning a race horse is typically an exhausting and money-losing venture, much...
by jim muehlhausen | Oct 7, 2010 | Business Model Design, Business Model Innovation, crowdsourcing, Private Companies, Public Companies
This is a guest post by Anders Sundelin, expert in business model innovation, with the popular blog The Business Model Database. Crowdsourcing or mass collaboration have become popular words for using an external group of people as part of the value creation and value...
by jim muehlhausen | Jun 1, 2010 | Business Model Design, Business Model Secrets, Night Club Business Model, Panera Bread, Public Companies, Starbucks, Success Stories
The Freemium business model is sweeping the technology world. The simplest explanation of the Freemium business model is giving away a lite version of the product at no charge. In many freemium business models, approximately ten percent of the free users upgrade to...
