BUS W235 Idea Validation and Business Model Development

The Business Models Handbook brings together the most widely used templates and frameworks into a single resource. Each chapter focuses on one of 50 individual business frameworks, supported by a real-world case study.

HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic.

This edited collection explores digital business models (DBMs) in theory and practice to contribute to knowledge of how companies, organizations and networks can design, implement and apply DBMs. It views DBMs in a range of contexts and forms, which can be integrated in a number of ways, and aims to inspire and enable academics, students and practitioners to seize the opportunities posed by digital business models, technologies and platforms.

Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs is particularly useful for academics, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurial finance, strategic management, as well as professionals interested in how crowdfunding can be utilised as a strategic tool to create competitive advantage.

This book focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research. Defines and evaluates various market segments: donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding, crowdinvesting and crowdlending. Provides an assessment of startups, market structure, as well as backers and investors for each segment.