How valuable is engineered serendipity to your business? On my way back from a meeting in the Watershed I thought I’d stick my head into UWE’s new business incubator facility in Bush House. Only opened just before Christmas they already have a good selection of tenants including the usual scattering of graduate start-ups (such as… Continue reading Serendipity engineering
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How Many? Part the Second
I just posted an example where I’d worked up an Addressable Market calculation based on fairly good data. Of course, this data isn’t usually available; or it’s really expensive. One of the services that jbsh offer is business consultancy, mainly strategic growth plans and help with the business planning activity. So what’s the addressable market… Continue reading How Many? Part the Second
How many? Part the First
Something that makes an appearance fairly early in a business plan is the addressable market size. This is usually the point where after some mumbo-jumbo you’d end up with something like “…and thus we only need 1% to secure $100m turnover.” Mark Davies has a good post on the subject from a VC perspective but… Continue reading How many? Part the First
Portfolio business planning
Uploaded by frozenchipmunk on 20 Aug 07. Not about a portfolio of businesses, but rather for a business to have a portfolio of income streams from a single (or small number) of core products / services. Several recent conversations in Bristol, Leeds, London and elsewhere have shown that a winning business model could be through… Continue reading Portfolio business planning