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If creating systems, we need to be
The next business model opportunities – by Konstantyn Spsokukotskiy, Atlanta 2009
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Source: Peter Stella, International Monetary Fund, The Federal Reserve System Balance Sheet What Happened and Why It Matters, 2009
Last time the general business model was forced to modify thirty years ago. An access to easy-to-get consumer-grade credit was granted. The volume of liquid funds nearly doubled. Consumers could easily afford whatever they wanted thanks to that excess money.
The model of the past
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Consumermajor market force
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Both big volume cash flow and the effect “it’s easy to part with the money that you get easily” created opportunities to do lucrative business if selling to consumers.
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Businesses that put consumers and small businesses in the center of their interests have grown faster and stronger than the rest of the pack. 1990
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All thinking started and ended here. Consumers do small ticket purchases. Massive sales is required for startup success.
SELL TO CONSUMERSwas the primary concern of startups
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Massive sales requires mass production.
MANUFACTURINGin mass production facilities
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Big manufacturing facilities or even materials for big production batches weren’t affordable without a financial help
INVESTMENTgot form a third party
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Raise enough money was a paramount of successful entre-preneurship. Even if a product didn’t work there was still enough room to learn on the go, given one has positive bank account balance
Step 1. Borrow money
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Step 2. Produce
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In the most cases the production infrastruc-ture was build anew. Multiple “parallel universes” have been created. Some of them busted (.com), some have been acquired and dissolved in big corpo-rations as redundant. In any way, it is a signi-ficant waste.
Step 3. Marketing
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Big sales is also about big marketing expenditures. Many thanks to credit card cargo-cult. The financial system and globalization paid for it for a while.
Game over
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the business modelof the last three decadesis stale-mated
Watch presentation “The next business”to understand triggersbehind the scene
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For the next couple of years
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Simple model
The economy is complex. Though, a simple model can describe, help to under-stand and predict economic development. Simple models comprising of a few players and their interactions enable strategic business planning.
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Strictly speaking this isn’t a player. It’s a “warehouse” that stores significant value. Startup economy is about value creation. The warehouse is an important entity in value creation analysis.
business consumer goods
The last three entities constitute the real economy cycle. It could be self-sufficient in a steady market. But if economy grows, it means at least one of the following:1. Better products and
consumption choice2. More savings for a
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production facilitiesThen the resources are diverted for storage of value. There is less and less liquidity, economy starves and stops performing.
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Banking system was introduced to provide stability and nurturing ground for economic growth. Essentially itsupplies and regulates the amount of funds (monetary incentives) available in the system.
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Initially the amount of bank reserves was low. A significant amount of funds was deployed in the real sector
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There is -though-something there that creates an unequal distribution of created value between businesses an consumers. As a result businesses possess more power to produce than consumers are being able to buy. All economic schools have recognized the problem. The difference between them is only in the perception of causes. Whatever the reason, it leads to an over-supply and under-consumption. Then business slows down and a crisis begins>
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The law change in 1981 dealt with such crisis. It created an encouraging environment to provide loans for consumers. The intention was to level up the consumers and business. The consumer-grade credit provided excess funds. 1) Spending increased.2) Goods could be procured on-demand. It eliminated the need to collect money and resulted in less saving. Larger portion of wages was spent.
Overall: spending increases significantly.
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The opportunity for high prices created positive business incentives. A higher delayed consumption improved the standard of living.
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Some businesses further tried to increase revenue by biting off consumer privileges, i.e. reducing consumer’s choice to delay consumption. Throw-away, use-once products were introduced en masse. A fact is that such products have high costs per utility unit. They are economically viable only if the level of spending is high.
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It turned out that this business model wasn’t sustainable. There stillwas a tarnished inequality. As soon as market saturated and the opportunity for short-term profits was eaten up, the same old problem occurred. Consumers can’t pay for goods that business produces in a long run. The inability to pur-chase day-to-day goods turned into inability to purchase investment goods, i.e. housing etc.>
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Businesses that had been underwriting long-term consumer-financing were hit first in 2008. They had large stakes in long invest-ments and couldn’t quickly react on sudden revelations.
But other businesses aren’t immune. To survive volatility every business wants to increase assets to liabilities ratio. When it comes to finance the process is called deleveraging.business
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A de-facto return to the pre-1981 version of the system will result in:1) lower standard of living2) decreased life expect-ancy and entitlements3) loss of many product specimens4) permanent loss of many jobs and skills
Conclusion: Consumer is ceasing be the power driving (paying ramp-up costs for) innovation
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Big sales will now mean fewer sales transactions, big checks passing hands. Businesses that have financial resources will be preferred cus-tomer. Costs cutting will be their main theme. Startups can help with more efficient machine-ry, manage asset opti-mization, etc.
bank business
There is plenty of funds in big banks. The backed by industrial contracts entrepreneurs can tap it cheaply.
Step 2. Borrow money
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Step 3. Produce
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The no waste policy means that a creation of “parallel universes” will not be rewarded. New production capacities should be complimen-tary to existing facilities and improve their pro-ductivity significantly. An integration of the inno-vation process with cor-porations is inevitable.
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