More standard MBA-ware, developed in consultation with local SBDC & SCORE organizations (both of which are free & have been enormously helpful & valuable in different ways — highly recommended!).
These were fairly early iterations, & our latest thinking & formulations are currently better reflected on the Coεmeta landing page (coemeta.xyz). But worth including for reference:
(Will embed the Business Model Canvas one-pager below, but the Business Plan is much longer, so will just hyperlink.
And here are links to the original templates: Model Canvas, Business Plan)
These are mostly self-explanatory & but a few further comments:
- Despite being mostly redundant, it occurred to me for the first time during the canvas exercise that "excellence & efficiency" was core to my past career success & work ethic, & worth making an explicit part of Coεmeta's value proposition. This speaks to the value of revisiting these prompts from different angles via different frameworks & formats, etc.
- It's a bit unconventional to specify 'non-customer' segments in these things, but I firmly believe Michael Porter's axiom: "The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do", despite the rarity of this in practice (much like strategy itself). Of course, like anything else, this focus might change over time.
Some additional details from the business plan worth excerpting here:
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Part of the thesis for Coεmeta, & why it might work, is how poorly orgs are currently served by data operations...
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... & how demand continues to grow despite that fact (this also points to an eventual reckoning & bubble-burst)
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Re: financial projections & revenue assumptions:
