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Marketing the Better Mousetrap: A Technologists Perspective A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs: The Journey Continued Through Heights and Valleys
Kevin Boulin, founder and President of EnerTech Enviromental of Atlanta, had presented his company to a panel of new venture investors and technology expert. Maurice Genderson, a founding partner of Nth Power Technologies a venture capital firm in San Fransisco, had heard the presentasions of many start-up companies during the two-days forum.
A Family Matter
First Business Model The marketing chalenge derived from the technological orgins of the company. Even so, they found it difficult to attract more than casual attention without a tangible demonstration of the technology. The Technology Demonstration On the one hand, without demonstration at nearcommercial scale, EnerTech could not convince potential customers that technology would actually perform.
Build the demonstration plant Turn over EnerTech the know-how derived from the plant for use the US market Pay EnerTech a cash fee
Business Model Deal flow : the supply of investment quality companies having sound management, an opportunity to create extraodinary value, and business model that can capture that value
The classic venture capital model, purpose: It would strengthen credibility among investors as the actual deals done began to build a convincing record of accomplishment for Nth power It would persuade energy entrepreneurs to seek out Nth Power as firm conected to real sources of capital It would provide enough income to defray the very considerable cost of rising a venture fund It would build on an estamblished relationship with the first client, a large East Coast electric utility which was included with the purchase from the consultancy
Personal Characteristic
Family background The technology entrepreneurs from educated Motivated to start their companies
A lead entrepreneur Experience and relevant industry connections Cohesion Integrity A reward and compensation system
In search opportunity
Entrepreneurs must seek opportunities in special market place situastion Marketplace anomalies likely to produce the best opportunities The internal perspective company of industry
The power of any opportunity can be understood best when viewed through the lens of the business model the complate set of ideas concerning the way that value is to be created and a durable, structural competitive adventage sustained. Foundation concept: A concept of how customer value will be created A consept of how the new venture will build for itself a structural competitive adventege in providing that value
A Technologists Perspective
Understanding your offering the way a customer valur itnot as innovation, but as package innovative services Discrening which kinds of customer are likely to yield the first sale and which will comprise the large, mainstream market Learning what markets are trying to tell you and responding appropriately
Technology as Service
Marketing as Learnig
Investors take the company more seiously A sale to one customer often begets another
Base your price on the value of your offering to the customer rather than cost to produce Be willing to assume the risk of novel strategies Use these novel strategies proactively without waiting for competitiors to initiate the pricing action Remain flexsible in pricing
Llearning in Organization
Take place inside your own head and the heads of your patners Open minded with a capacity to shed assumptions when the evidence of the marketplace
Product Design Business Design Product Economies Combining Technologies Competitive Skills in Transition
Disruptive Technologies
Societal Preferences
Sustaining Disruptive
where a person's decision to use the technology within is affected by the number of users of these technologies.
Speed the development of a technology was able to affect the development of other technologies.
Law of Accelerating Returns Ray Kurzweil said, I and many other scientists believe that within the next 20 years we are able to reprogram the ancient software on our bodies, and stop the aging process and reverse it. Nanotechnologies will make us live forever.
First Money in
On a Roll Again
Sludge Happens
A Reflection
- Measuring Cash Flow The financial tool that allows you to do this is called the pro forma: a cash flow projection an income statement a balance sheet Good financial planning can avoid the worst evil of all
Time-driven vs. Event-driven Income-orientation vs. Value-orientation Promotion vs. Wealth Building The Safety Net
Building Externally : Corporate Venture Capital Membuka percakapan di awal dengan perusahaanperusahaan yang dianggap sudah mapan & sukses, karena timbul rasa ketertarikan saat para pengusaha independen tersebut mencari dana untuk bisnis mereka.
Building Internally : It Takes the Right Stuff Contoh Kasus : Black & Veatch : An Entrepreneurial Engineering Company - The Original Market Insight - The Technology Idea - An Expanding Market Concept - Capturing the Value : Origins of BVSG
Budaya perusahaan yang mengejar nilai baru, keinginan untuk meningkatkan pertukaran resiko untuk menangkap bagaiman suatu prospek dapat memberikan nilai penting bagi perusahaan dan memberikan penghargaan yang sesuai bagi mereka yang sukses dalam menjalankan budaya perusahaan tersebut.
Seperangkat pemikiran dari para individu untuk menjadi juara yang dapat menghimpun visi, energi, dan kapasitas intelektual untuk mengambil penciptaan usaha baru dan dapat secara bijaksana untuk mengetahui sejauh mana batasan yang mereka miliki.
Pandangan mengenai masa depan Elemen-elemen dari Ekonomi Baru yang Nyata Munculnya Pengetahuan sebagai sebuah Nilai Struktur Ekonomi dari suatu Pengetahuan Pasar Baru di dalam Barang Umum
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