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App Inventor Get Started Follow these simple directions to build your first app! Tutorials Step-by-step guides show you how to create even more apps. Teach Find out about curriculum and resources for teachers. Forums Join community forums to get answers to your questions. 9 Proven Business Models to Consider for Your Startup The business model is at the core of any successful startup, because no matter how cool an idea is or how unique something may seem, a startup must have a viable way of making money that is worthy enough for future investment and to sustain itself. Many new startup founders throw around the term “business model” when discussing and planning strategies for their venture. Questions like “What business model works best with my idea?” The business model you choose needs to tie to the consumer pain point your startup is relieving, and work better than the competition’s. There are many options to generate revenue that have already been proven, and as a founder it is your job to figure out which one works best with your business. 1. Warby Parker had the simple idea back in 2010 we all wish we would have thought of first. Why It Works: Becoming the middleman gives startups a serious pricing advantage, and saves consumers money. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner's Guide Advertisement Information architecture (IA) is one of those buzzwords you’ve probably heard before. It refers to the organization of the information on your website and how it all fits together. When planning your IA, involve users of your website in the process as soon as you can. In this article, we’ll discuss card sorting, a tried and true technique for doing just that. What Is Information Architecture? One of the great things about modern web design is the way it considers users’ needs from the start. Good Navigation Starts With Good IA IA refers to the structure of information on a website, and it is depicted with site maps, diagrams and spreadsheets. As with many website improvements, it helps to use techniques that involve users. Bad IA Is Everywhere Bad organization can happen anywhere. Where’s the Hot Sauce? I sometimes struggle when looking for products at my supermarket, which increases my frustration. How Bad IA Happens The Importance of Content Strategy How Card Sorting Helps 1.
What a Year of Job Rejections Taught Me About Pitching Myself After sending out hundreds of copies of my résumé to dozens of companies over the last year, I realized that I was getting nowhere because my approach was wrong. I did everything I was taught to do: I created a list of the top 20 companies I wanted to work for, I customized my résumé for each opening, I networked online and offline. I met some fantastic people throughout the process, but nothing got me closer to a securing a role, or even a chance to interview. What I had failed to do was ask myself some of the tough and honest questions early on. My story began in May 2014 when after 10 years of building a successful career in the Middle East, I decided to move to Silicon Valley to look for opportunities with tech companies. As a few months turned into a year and I saw no signs of progress, I reached a point of panic. As a marketer, I decided to re-frame the challenge. I released the report on Twitter and copied Airbnb’s founders and leadership team.
6 Great Business Models to Consider for a Startup People often throw around the term business model in discussing startups. But just what is a business model? Which ones work best and why? A business model explains which consumer pain your startup chooses to relieve, why your solution works better than competing ones and how big a wedge a company can drive between what customers are willing to pay and the costs. I recently spent three hours with some clients, executives from Beijing, to discuss these questions: I presented several business models and their financial benefits. After sharing the idea of the business model canvas, developed by Alexander Osterwalder to help entrepreneurs design a customized business model, I gave the Chinese executives an hour to "paint" a new business idea. They did so brilliantly, picking two business ideas that clearly passed these three tests. Read on for a quick review of the six most interesting business models I presented, some of which they found inspiring. Related: The Business Model for Disruption 1.
Create a new Business Model Canvas - Canvanizer The Business Model Canvas was proposed by Alexander Osterwalder based on his earlier book: Business Model Ontology. It outlines nine segments which form the building blocks for the business model in a nice one-page canvas. You can find a detailed explanation in his bestselling book "Business Model Generation". If you want to try it a Business Model Canvas without entering your email address, please use our Canvanizer 2.0 Business Model Canvas Demo for a first impression. The Business Model Canvas reflects systematically on your business model, so you can focus on your business model segment by segment. Who are your key partners/suppliers?
Design Methods Step 1: Discover This four-part guide is for anyone who wants to understand the methods designers use and try them out for themselves. We’ve grouped 25 design methods into four steps – Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver – based on the stages of the Double Diamond, the Design Council’s simple way of mapping the design process From rapid prototyping to personas and surveys, methods like these are used all the time in our work with partners. Use the methods below to keep your perspectives wide, allowing for a broad range of ideas and influences. Creating a project space What is it? Creating a dedicated area to organise project materials, work and meet. What is it useful for? Creating a project space can help you make sense of large amounts of information, keep it organised, give your project visibility and communicate the story of your project to others. How can I do it? Find – or make – a dedicated project zone. Hold all your meetings and creative sessions in this space so you are surrounded by stimuli.
[Case Study] How Hawkers Uses Shopify Plus to Disrupt the Sunglasses I Visit the shop It was the summer of 2013, and Hawkers had a problem. Thousands of their sunglasses, imported from the US, were tied up in customs at Madrid. Andreas Klein, the newest member of the Hawkers crew, had his first task: to get these sunglasses out of customs and into the hands of their customers. In a serendipitous twist of fate, this delay actually worked in their favor. The delay gave their sunglasses an air of exclusivity that so many brands would kill for. In fact, that first summer, they sold 200,000 sunglasses — after being in business for just a few months. Let’s take a few steps back to the beginning and see how they got there ... An IT Team, Selling Sunglasses? Earlier that year, in February, four developers teamed up to write apps to help ecommerce businesses sell products on Facebook. One of them had a pair of sunglasses, and an idea — why not test the process themselves? To their (pleasant) surprise, they blazed through the original stock and wound up overselling.