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Conducting a
Feasibility Analysis &
Designing a Business
Model
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Creating a Business Model
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Business Eras
Sales Era (1920-1950)
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Business Eras
Marketing Era
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Appraising Readiness to Become an
Entrepreneur contd.
Marketing considerations:
The successful owner is the one who:
Idea Assessment
Use an idea sketch pad to ask key questions
addressing:
1.Customers
2.Offering
3.Value proposition
4.Core competencies
5.People
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Creating a Business Model
1. Suppliers Bargaining
1. Buyers Bargaining
1. Threat of substitutes
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Strongest of the five forces
Industry is more attractive when:
▪ Number of competitors is large, or, at the other extreme, quite
small
Primary research:
Collect data firsthand and analyze it
Secondary research:
Gather data that already has been
compiled and analyze it
Primary research:
Collect data firsthand and analyze it
▪ Customer surveys and questionnaires
▪ Focus groups
▪ In-home trials
▪ Trade associations and business directories
Primary research:
Collect data firsthand and analyze it
▪ Industry databases
▪ Demographic data
▪ Forecasts
▪ Articles
▪ Local data
▪ Internet
Secondary research:
Gather data that already has been compiled
and analyze it.
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What are Consumers’ Needs,
Wants, and Demands?
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Demand =
Wants Buying Power
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What are the differences
between Goods,
Services, & Ideas…?
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What are the differences between Goods,
Services, & Ideas…?
For this course, we will use the word product to refer to goods,
services, and ideas.
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Segmenting Consumers: Demographics
Demographics:
• Age
• Gender
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Segmenting Consumers: Demographics
Demographics:
• Social class/income
•Geography
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Do you have any bond, attachment or
relationship with specific brands?
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Consumer-Brand Relationships
1. Self-concept attachment: the product
helps to establish the user’s identity.
“This brand says something about me”
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Consumer-Brand Relationships (Cont’d)
2. Nostalgic attachment: the product serves
as a link to the consumer’s past.
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Consumer-Brand Relationships (Cont’d)
3.Interdependence: the product is a part of
the user’s daily routine.
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Consumer-Brand Relationships (Cont’d)
• 4. Love: the product elicits emotional
bonds of warmth, passion, or other strong
emotion
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Positioning
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Creating a Business Model Part II
Capital requirements:
an estimate of how much start-up capital is
required to launch the business.
Estimated earnings:
forecasted income statements.
Return on investment:
Combining the previous two estimates to determine
how much investors can expect their investments to
return.
Address:
▪ Segmentation Product
▪ Targeting Price
▪ Consumer Attributes Promotion
▪ Differentiation Place
▪ Positioning
▪ Value Proposition (V=Q:S:P)
Marketing Strategy: 2- Mix
Address:
▪ Segmentation Product
▪ Targeting Price
▪ Consumer Attributes Promotion
▪ Differentiation Place
▪ Positioning
▪ Value Proposition (V=Q:S:P)
Module 4: Creating a Business Model Part II
Ask:
▪Do we really understand the customer problem?
Business Prototyping
▪ Entrepreneurs test their business models on a
small scale before committing serious
resources to launch a business that might not
work.
Pivots:
The process of making changes / adjustments
in the business model on the basis of the
feedback a company receives from customers.
1. Product pivot
2. Customer pivot
3. Revenue model pivot
Conclusion
▪ The best business ideas start with a common
problem or need.
Conclusion
▪ Developing a business model helps entrepreneur
better understand all that will be required to launch
and build a business.