We’ve bolted certain socially enabled practices on to our businesses to provide greater reach, customer service and the pretense of connection, but I wonder if we’ve stopped dreadfully short of the true potential of social. One that moves beyond social tactics to a place where social is the business, is a part of every consideration. MORE >>

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, This post is part one. What if I was wrong? MORE >>

Over the last 50 years engineers have moved from building computers out of individual transistors to building with prepackaged logic gates. It’s the combination of Business Model Design and Customer Development. Business Model Design. It instantly creates a shared visual language while defining a business.  MORE >>

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup.  Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. So what would a search process for a business model look like? And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. Sign up here. MORE >>

The Search for the Business Model. startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Investors bet on a startup CEO to find the repeatable and scalable business model. They may draw their business model formally or they may keep the pieces in their head. MORE >>