These resources are tools that can be helpful for teams developing innovative new business ideas.
eVenture Business Presentation Guide
This is a set of Powerpoint slides that presents a guideline for topics to cover when presenting an original, innovative business. The focus is on presenting insight into the business model that will be further developed. It is relevant for innovative entrepreneurial businesses where the business concept is discovered through experimentation and iteration and there is really no valid information to produce a traditional business plan.
eVenture Business Presentation Guide 13june2011
Financial Case Guide
This is a set of Powerpoint slides that briefly summarizes the steps involved in developing the financial case for a new business.
Financial Case Guide 13june2011
Financing the Business
This is a set of Powerpoint slides that briefly summarizes different ways to finance a start-up business.
Financing the Business 13june2011
Cooperative Entrepreneurship Innovation Guide
This is a pdf file of a very simple two-page framework that captures the essence of a new business concept. It can provide some basic direction for students who are learning how to develop a new, innovative business.
Cooperative Entrepreneurship Innovation Guide 20july09
Business Model Canvas
This is a pdf file of a more comprehensive one-page framework that captures the key elements that work together to make a business model successful. It provides a very useful template to guide an entrepreneurial team when developing a new business. Once all the elements are defined, the team can determine which elements follow those of proven businesses, and which are leaps of faith that define the innovative components of the business and need to be verified and most likely adapted in the marketplace. This is a slightly modified version of the document obtained from www.businessmodelgeneration.com.