The business model canvas — as opposed to the traditional, intricate business plan — helps organizations conduct structured, tangible, and strategic conversations around new businesses or existing ones [...]
[...] Each of these nine components contains a series of hypotheses about your business model that you need to test (click or tap for a bigger version): [...]
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