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		<title>Feel the Pain</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/feel-the-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked a bit about value proposition design recently, and the need to get out of the building and find out what your customers really want. But what if this isn&#8217;t enough? And why is it that so many stories of inventors getting out of the building have  customers do the exact opposite of what was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1153&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lateral Thinking meets Business Model Innovation</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/lateral-thinking-meets-business-model-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lateral thinking can be thought of as logical thinking but form a different starting point. If you are able to shift your starting point enough before your logical mind gets to work, you can find yourself with surprising results. Hopefully, novel ideas with some value that you just wouldn&#8217;t have thought of using regular logical [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1146&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Five Whys to find Customer Jobs</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/fivewhys-to-find-customer-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it (Albert Einstein) Making sure you are solving the right problem is THE most important part of business model innovation. In terms of developing your value proposition, this means spending time discovering which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1129&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity and Business Model Innovation (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/creativity-and-business-model-innovation-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am looking at different ways we can put the innovation back into business model innovation. Taking the approach that creativity in thinking can be done deliberately, I&#8217;m applying various deliberate creative thinking techniques to what is now becoming the familiar area of business model generation, lean startups and customer development. Last week [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1116&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity and Business Model Innovation (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/creativity-and-business-model-innovation-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business model innovation and the search for a scalable business model has been a hot topic over the last couple of years with the explosion of lean startups, customer discovery, and business model generation. But where is the actual innovation in all of this? I am seeing a lot of trial and error but not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1106&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Focus your MVP right</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/focus-your-mvp-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Model Generation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Anthill for this wonderful footage of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nun chucks! Yes you heard that right, nun chucks no less. Shot in the 1960s and reused in a desperate attempt by Nokia to boost sales for their N96 phone, this short film shows what can be achieved with a life time [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1075&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Validating a Value Proposition</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/validating-a-value-proposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There seem to be a ton of products starting to emerge for developing business model canvases, and running lean customer discovery experiments. This one in particular caught my eye: How Trevor Saved $10,000 and 6 Months With the Validation Board This great story takes us through Trevor&#8217;s efforts at launching a business focused on getting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=1068&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building your Value Proposition</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/building-your-value-proposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Model Generation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business model canvas provides a great tool for working through your business model, but it says little about timing and prioritisation. When should you develop your resources model for instance, before or after your customer segments? Ash Maurya and others start out by looking at the value proposition and taking it from there. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=998&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business Model Reinvention</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/business-model-reinvention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fivewhys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once worked for a firm who found themselves going through a rough patch. With staff leaving left, right and centre the department was quickly dwindling to the point of no return. With no clear direction, a decimated sales pipeline, and a team of under motivated staff we were finally paid a visit by our [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=988&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Premature Scaling</title>
		<link>http://fivewhys.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/premature-scaling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a new startup crashes and burns, the reason is often down to what is known as &#8220;premature scaling&#8221;. This basically means they started growing some parts of the business too early, and were consumed by cash flow crises. Read all about it in  this report from the Startup Genome Project. Published in 2011, the report looked [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivewhys.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12704981&#038;post=965&#038;subd=fivewhys&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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