joining up the dots - enterprise development, innovation, and finance

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From making room for creativity and innovation, to building your enterprise through customer development and attention to your revenue model, this presentation joins the dots up between these elements and what investors are looking for. A talk I delivered at the Enterprising Women event hosted by The CUBE London and 8 Fold on 17 November 2010 as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

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Bonnie Wong

Enterprising WomenThe CUBE London17 November 2010

Enterprise Development

A Culture for Innovation

Where do we begin to develop a new enterprise and a culture for innovation?

Innovation

Enterprise Development

A Culture for Innovation

Well, we begin with an innovative new idea.

Innovation

Enterprise Development

A Culture for Innovation

RandomnessChaos

Emptiness

Actually, no, we begin before that, with randomness, chaos, emptiness. Take the limits off.

RandomnessChaos

Emptiness

CreativityNew Ideas

Innovation &Vision Development

A Direction...Rather Than a Destination

Randomness and emptiness makes room for creativity and new ideas. From there we can innovate and develop our vision. Think of the vision for your

enterprise as a direction – gives you room to manoeuvre

What does this really mean?

Viable business model, investors want to know how you're going to make money

“Robust business plans and revenue models”

~ Good Deals Conference 2010

Now that you have your vision, what next? Investors want robust business plans and revenue models.

Business Model Canvas, Alex Osterwalder, http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/toolshttp://www.businesmodelgeneration.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Visual tool for identifying components of your business model and how they relate to each other. Investors are interested in the revenue model.

Business Model Canvas, Alex Osterwalder, http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/toolshttp://www.businesmodelgeneration.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Start with your customers, to figure out what your revenue model is.

Customer Development Model, Steve Blankhttp://steveblank.com/2009/09/17/the-path-of-warriors-and-winners/

Customer Development Model, Steve Blankhttp://steveblank.com/2009/09/17/the-path-of-warriors-and-winners/

Component descriptions from Mark Zimmerman @ MaRS http://www.marsdd.com/blog/2010/09/20/please-dont-hire-a-sales-professional/

1.Customer Discovery, where a start-up tests its hypothesis about a customer’s problem and their proposed solution.

2.Customer Validation, where a start-up develops, tests and iterates until it finds a repeatable and scalable sales process.

3.Customer Creation, where a company’s focus turns from finding demand to creating it in order to scale revenue.

4.Company Building, where a company transitions from an organization designed for learning and flexibility into a one engineered for execution.

Customer Development Model, Steve Blankhttp://steveblank.com/2009/09/17/the-path-of-warriors-and-winners/

It would be better if it was purple and made from Fairtrade cotton

Customer Development Model, Steve Blankhttp://steveblank.com/2009/09/17/the-path-of-warriors-and-winners/

Customer Development Model, Steve Blankhttp://steveblank.com/2009/09/17/the-path-of-warriors-and-winners/

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print in batches of ### t-shirts.

Back to that Revenue Model...

Financial models tell the story of your enterprise in the language of numbers. It's not a list, it's not a bank statement.

How to Finance Your Venture

Finance new ventures by bootstrapping – fund it yourself, from savings, with the help of family and friends.

How to Finance Your Venture

“I eat risk for breakfast!”

Or find an angel investor – they have a higher appetite for risk for new, unproven ventures.

Typical investors like buy and build strategy...

scale and replicate

If you are established and looking to grow, you may consider external finance. Investors like one to three years existing trading.

ReliablePredictable

Secure

UncertainNew

Untested

A Culture for Innovationrequires balance

A culture for innovation balances a solid foundation with room to innovate. Build this into your business model from the start.

ReliablePredictable

Secure

UncertainNew

Untested

Google time

3M have been doing this for ages

It is effectively what Google does – main search business is its foundation, makes room for Google time. 3M also allows its employees to experiment.

ReliablePredictable

Secure

UncertainNew

Untested

Your own venture

Sponsors

Angel investors

You can do this too – first venture, create a stable foundation with a proven business model, or partner with those who provide stability and can take a

risk with your venture.

ReliablePredictable

Secure

UncertainNew

Untested

Your own venture

Sponsors

Angel investors

Your next venture

Someone you can support

Your next venture can be riskier, with an unproven model or support someone else's innovation.

RandomnessChaos

Emptiness

CreativityNew Ideas

Innovation &Vision Development

Enterprise Development

A Culture for Innovation

Thank You!

Bonnie WongDirector

Composition Advisory Limited

@BonnieOWong

bonnie@compositionadvisory.comhttp://compositionadvisory.com

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