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Business Models

How will AI+Blockchain+Crypto+DePIN Business Rails impact traditional Business Models? Which are best suited for establishing deep rooted value?

Model NameTech Impact
Affiliate marketing
Agency-based
Aggregator
API licensing
Attention merchant
Auction-Based
Brokerage
Bundling
Cash machine
Combination of chains and franchise
Consulting
Crowd Source
Data licensing
Distribution based
Drop-shipping
Direct sales
Direct-to-consumers
Discount with high-quality
Disintermediation Model
E-Commerce
Enterprise
Flex Pricing
Fractionalization
Franchise
Freemium
Hidden revenue
High Touch
Instant news
Leasing
Low Touch
Multi-brand
Multi-sided platform
One-for-one
Online educational
Nickel and Dime
Pay as Go (Utility)
Peer-to-peer
Product as a service
Razor and blade
Reverse Auction
Reverse Razor and Blade
Social enterprise
Standardization
Subscription
User Base Communities
User-generated content
Vertically Integrated

A Business Model sets the foundation for operations, outlining the core elements of how the company operates, including its value proposition, target market, revenue streams, cost structure, and key activities.

Context

Operations

  • Compare alternative production processes to optimise long-term production planning.
  • Improve quality of outputs at lower cost to benefit from economies of scale.
  • Research the integration of tech by major industry players.
  • Leverage technology to improve decision-making.

Threats

  • Analyze all relevant technologies that may be at different stages of evolution and how these could impact the company
  • Understanding new technologies that can impact your business in advance is essential
  • Interview competitors and understand their different strategies
  • Investigate and analyze competitors' strategies to understand any competitive advantage
  • Get details on new products, productivity insights, and resource utilization of competitors

Predictions

  • What roles require human input? What capabilities to they need?
  • Understand the history of technology trends in the industry
  • Research the technology roadmaps of leading industry players

Roadmap

  • Are we on track?
  • What is the hardest problem to solve?
  • What is the most valuable problem to solve?
  • What is preventing progress?
  • What are we missing?