Sentences with phrase «develop viable business models»

Some of the loss is made up in handouts from the central government — but upgrading the grid will be of little use unless utilities can develop viable business models.

Wikipedia also defines it as: «A startup company (startup or start - up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast - growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process or a platform.

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One program, Startup Weekend, has participants who develop an entire business idea, from idea to pitch to working models or minimum viable products (MVP), all over a 54 - hour weekend.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

We'll give you strategies to develop a minimum viable product (MVP), construct a scalable business model, gain traction and generate revenue, so you are ready to take the next step.

«If publishers accept change, transform their processes, train employees, and offer their content in multiple formats — in digital or printed form, bound or on demand, as a PDF or ePUB — and on all platforms, they will have a good chance of developing a viable digital business model.

Similar thematic topics that currently emerge in the work of RUAF on short food chains and local economy are the development of logistical infrastructures for aggregating produce at city region level (commonly known as «food hubs») and the need to develop successful and viable business models for the implementation of short food supply chains within urban settings.

Still, even if I don't understand it, I'm excited to know that there is a business model driving Canonical, because it gives me hope that it will develop into a viable third operating system for the common international user.