Keeping your idea all bottled up because you're afraid someone might steal it is a rather unlikely scenario and could certainly be worth the risk in order to gain crucial insight into whether you have
a viable business concept.
Not exact matches
Here, we look at steps startups can take to move their
business beyond an interesting
concept to a commercially
viable company.
Waiting to launch a product until its «magical» moment goes against the
concept of MVP, or minimum
viable product, which has become so trendy in
business over the past few years.
«The person who's being asked for the money — if this is not a
business that they think is
viable, they owe it to their family member to say» [I] won't invest in it unless [you] can tweak the
concept, get more experience or bring people into it who have more experience,»» advises Gamel.
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
Turning that
concept into a
viable business is a different story.
«The «flight to safety»
concept — periods of volatility causing money to flow out of equity markets into fixed income and thus driving prices up and yields down — no longer looks
viable,» Bill Belden, head of ETF
business development at Guggenheim, said.
After nine months of the competition, six
business teams emerged with
viable concepts worth supporting for development.
Scribd was one of the early pioneers of the Netflix for e-Books
concept and raised millions of dollars to convince publishers that there
business model was
viable.
Buckley eliminates the
concepts he doesn't think are
viable, sticks to
businesses he knows and thoroughly investigates a company's fundamentals.
This session provides an introduction to the
concept of «authentic branding,» which has been used to help visual artists, authors, celebrities, and
business executives be more of who they are publicly, to make their work more accessible and
viable for their audiences.
For instance, financial planning is essential before you even start your
business, to ensure the
concept is a
viable one.
In addition to
concept, the public wants to see solid use cases and a
viable business model underlying the crowdraise.