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What does a “puppies-as-a-service” business model look like? 🐾
Part II of our Business Model Canvas example dives into the Activities → Resources → Costs → Revenue blocks.
It’s playful, yes—but the structure works for any startup that needs clarity.
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Business Model Canvas for Puppies, part II
When we last left off, our intrepid Puppies-as-a-Service Business Model Canvas was looking good. We'd finished off the product/market fit side of the canvas.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What if your business model canvas started with user experience, not cost structure?
This version flips the script—starting with the customer first, building value around their experience, and embedding your Build–Measure–Learn loop directly in the model.
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Business Model Canvas for User Experience
The Business Model Canvas is the tool of choice for a business dashboard. It very much appeals to the business guy in me. It irks the UX part of my brain.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Pivot ≠ panic move.
A real pivot changes one part of your business model while keeping what works.
Use it to learn, not to spin in circles.
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#LeanStartup #Pivot #StartupStrategy #Innovation
Cheat Sheet: Pivot Business – Kromatic Blog
A pivot is changing one aspect of your business model while keeping other aspects constant. Although anything in a pivot business model can be change.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Problem” is just a noun without people. A real problem is a felt tension over time — not something you label abstractly.
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#CustomerDiscovery #LeanStartup #ProblemDefinition #EarlyAdopters #Innovation
Problems Don’t Exist
When entrepreneurs start talking about problems, they stop talking about people.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
User Experience (UX) isn’t a checkbox or roadmap item — it’s everything users feel every step of the way. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter how polished your icon or feature list is.
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#UserExperience #UX #MVP #MinimumViableExperience #ProductDesign #CustomerFirst
Minimum Viable Experience: User Experience is Not a Feature
Minimum viable experience- Is anyone else out there sick of signing up for on-line products that don't do what they promised?
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October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Don’t outsource your startup’s pivots.
If you pivot just because an investor or mentor said so, you risk losing insight, ownership, and truth.
Your customers—you—must drive the change.
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#StartupAdvice #Pivot #CustomerDevelopment #Mentorship #LeanStartup #FoundersMindset
Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a Beware of Startup Mentor
Investors, startup mentor, advisors, and other experts are great to talk to. They'll offer valuable insight on market sizes, suggest great strategies.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Personas aren’t just pretty drawings—they’re hypotheses. Name them. Give them goals. Talk to people.
Build personas that help you test, learn, and understand who you’re building for.
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#CustomerPersona #CustomerDiscovery #LeanStartup #UserResearch #Innovation
Customer Personas for Customer Development
Customer Personas are an amazing tool for doing customer development. They are the clearest form of hypothesis, test, and learn (a.k.a. build, measure, learn)
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October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Validating a startup idea? Don’t pitch — ask:
👣 Do they feel the pain?
🛠️ How do they solve it now?
💰 Would they pay for a fix?
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#CustomerDiscovery #LeanStartup #Validation #StartupIdea #Innovation
Market Validation - How do you validate your startup idea with customers?
I suggest setting goals for yourself prior to each interview. What do you hope to learn from market validation? What hypotheses are you trying to verify?
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October 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
First revenue before launch? That’s not luck — it’s proof of early insight. 💡
Alpha testing isn’t just about bugs & feedback; it’s a chance to validate value, price, and demand before the world sees you.
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#AlphaRevenue #CustomerValidation #LeanStartup #Innovation #PrelaunchSuccess
$3.95? We're Rich! - Learn to Test Business Model First
Figure out how we could test business model/ every, no matter how silly. One of hypotheses was, "We can earn sufficient revenue from affiliate marketing.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Pivot isn’t just “change direction” — it’s choosing which change.
Product pivots, use-case pivots, market pivots, zoom-in or zoom-out — classify your options before you leap. 🔄
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#LeanStartup #Pivot #Innovation #StartupStrategy #Iteration
The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot
For those not familiar with term, lean startup pivot vocab word that states in it's simplest form: If your business model isn't working, change something.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Good customer discovery isn’t about pitching. It’s about shutting up and listening. 🧏♀️
Let your customers speak. Resist the urge to interrupt, defend, or steer. You’ll find more truth beyond your assumptions.
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#CustomerDiscovery #LeanStartup #ListenMore #Innovation #Empathy
How to Do Customer Discovery - Development Practice
How to do customer discovery? I've discovered a great new method of growing bigger ears. Ready? Wait for it... go listen to sales pitches from consultants.
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October 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A startup team isn’t about unicorn hires 🦄 — it’s about having the right skills at the right time.
Focus on plugging gaps so you can run the full Build–Measure–Learn loop.
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#StartupTeam #LeanStartup #BuildMeasureLearn #Innovation #TeamBuilding
Startup Team Building - Right Team / Right Market
This New Year's Eve, I'm resolving to work on the most important part of my own startup, the team called, startup team building.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Templates alone won’t make innovation happen. 🧠
Your team needs to adapt any experiment template to your own context—test, iterate, and build your own Learn S.M.A.R.T. version.
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#LeanStartup #Innovation #ExperimentDesign #BuildMeasureLearn #InnovationCulture
Our New Lean Template (and Why You Shouldn't Use It)
Every company is different and requires a unique business model. Our Lean Experiment template can give you something solid to build yours on.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Want interviews that go deep? Let customers tell their stories. 🎤
Ask about their past—real experiences—not future predictions. Memories reveal behaviors.
Let curiosity lead; talk less, listen more.
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#CustomerDiscovery #Storytelling #UserResearch #LeanStartup
Customer Discovery Interviews Part 1: Focus on Storytelling
A list of questions and answers will only get you so far in a customer discovery interviews.To truly understand your customer,you have to listen to stories.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Don’t bet everything on your first market hunch. 🎯
The Market Opportunity Navigator helps you spot, compare & prioritize options—before you commit.
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#Innovation #LeanStartup #MarketOpportunity #StartupTools #Strategy
Guest Post: Market Opportunity Navigator by Sharon Tal-Itzkovitch
Here is the simple and solid framework that is helping thousands of entrepreneurs, evaluate and prioritize market opportunity for their business.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Growth mindset isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a foundation for innovation. 💡
Keep testing, iterating, and learning—because talent and skills grow over time, not overnight.
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#GrowthMindset #Innovation #ContinuousLearning #LeanStartup #MindsetShift
Building on the Grit and Growth Mindset
Sensing the opportunity to reuse a bad joke, I, of course, replied with a picture of our new plant accompanied by:“Here’s our team grit and growth mindset.”
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September 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Beware the monster projects—those huge, complex, stakeholder-heavy initiatives that can crush your innovation efforts. 🐲
Simplify. Focus. Test. Otherwise they may kill your intrapreneurial career.
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#Intrapreneurship #CorporateInnovation #LeanStartup
Ten Monster Projects That Will Kill Your Career As an Intrapreneur – Kromatic Blog
We can be entrepreneurial and still get a paycheck...or that’s what they claim. “I’m an intrapreneur!” is the new rallying cry inside corporations.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Iteration speed isn’t about how fast you build—it’s how fast you learn.
Decisions, not deployments, define your real cycle time.
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#LeanStartup #Iteration #BuildMeasureLearn #Innovation
Measuring Innovation = Time to Learn, Not Time to Build
Measuring Innovation - Burn rates are meaningless in isolation. Iteration time is a critical aspect of starting a new business.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
AI can accelerate ideation and validation—but today it can’t replace human intuition or decision-making. Use it to augment, not outsource. Real innovation still depends on curiosity, empathy, and creative boldness. 🤖💡 Read more: buff.ly/QD9kcj3

#AI #Innovation #CreativeThinking #InnovationStrategy
Discover how AI is revolutionizing innovation. Explore its power to ideate, validate, and make data-driven decisions while avoiding pitfalls like bias and mediocrity. Learn actionable insights to harness AI responsibly for breakthrough results in your innovation processes.
AI can improve ideation, validation, and support decision-making in the future. However, current implementations of AI within innovation teams can cause laziness and mediocrity. We are at risk of…
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September 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Constraints aren’t barriers to innovation — they create it. 🚀

When resources, partners, or channels are limited, we’re forced to think differently. That’s where breakthrough ideas are born.

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#Innovation #Constraints #Creativity #Adaptability #Strategy
Great ideas are often forged in the crucible of adversity. History’s most daunting challenges have catalyzed some of our greatest innovations, turning limitations into springboards for creativity.
Constraints have a funny way of focusing the mind. Artificial constraints can drive innovation in your organization. Today’s challenges are recruiting tomorrow’s innovators.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Statistics for Product Managers: Tools and Techniques for Innovation buff.ly/1r61Egg - @trikro.bsky.social #innovation #statistics
Statistics for Product Managers: Tools and Techniques for Innovation – Kromatic Blog
Explore the balance between qualitative insights and quantitative data in product management.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🚨 TOMORROW: Learn how to use AI for smarter innovation forecasting + funding.

Join @trikro.bsky.social at Innov8rs AI Fest (Aug 28) — for corporate innovators only.

🕓 16:00 CEST | 10:00am EDT | 7:00am PDT

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#Innovation #AI #Governance #AIFest2025
August 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Coming soon: @trikro.bsky.social at Innov8rs AI Fest (Aug 28)!

Learn how to use AI for smarter innovation governance + real-time forecasting.
For corporate innovators only.

🕓 16:00 CEST | 10:00am EDT | 7:00am PDT

🔗 Details + signup: buff.ly/Y3utiYM

#AI #Innovation #Governance #AIFest2025
August 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Innovation ≠ guesswork.
@trikro.bsky.social will show how to use AI for smarter forecasting + decision-making at Innov8rs AI Fest (Aug 28).
🕓 16:00 CEST | 10am EDT | 7am PDT

Live, online, for corporate innovators only.

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#AI #InnovationLeadership #Governance #AIFest2025
August 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM