Print Email Facebook Twitter Business model design roadmap using CANVAS and C-SOFT framework elements, synchronised with start-up growth phases Title Business model design roadmap using CANVAS and C-SOFT framework elements, synchronised with start-up growth phases Author Shinde, S. Contributor Bouwman, W.A.G.A. (mentor) Scholten, V.E. (mentor) Verbree, E. (mentor) Van den Bergh, M. (mentor) Tan, Y.H. (mentor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Technology, Policy and Management Programme Management of Technology Date 2014-11-06 Abstract The establishment of a start-up firm consists of a chain of activities; technical research, opportunity identification, resource acquisition to name a few. The business model (BM) for a start-up firm is also being developed (intrinsically or explicitly) along with these activities. This development of BM is gradual and continuous. Eventually when entrepreneurs claim to have defined the BM for their start-up, most of the time they have just identified the BM that is being intrinsically designed since the technology research stage. Entrepreneurs draft a business plan to authenticate the economic value of the technology at hand. This business plan represents a simple value creating and money earning logic. This logic is the first basic design of the start-up’s BM. Even though an initial draft of a BM is in place, actual maturity of each BM element happens in segments. This thesis tries to track the design of a BM in terms of BM elements, which form the start-up’s first efficient BM. To ensure a balanced growth, entrepreneurs should consider the designing of the BM synchronised with start-up development. Scholars have proposed many models for start-up growth, which don’t specifically focus on all BM elements but on overall start-up growth. A roadmap of BM elements using CANVAS and C-SOFT frameworks, in sync with start-up growth is the deliverable of this thesis. This roadmap will assist entrepreneurs to identify which BM elements to develop during specific phases of start-up growth. This guidance is more valuable to an upcoming industry with a great potential for small scale service providing start-ups. Geographical Information System (GIS) service providing industry is embarking on such an opportunity with the rise of open sourced GIS platforms for integrating urban planning services to manage the rising trend of smart cities. Additionally, academia will acquire a new perspective in the upcoming field of BM roadmapping for designing business models from scratch for ICT start-ups in GIS industry. Subject Business Model design RoadmapGIS start-up Business model To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3f115d56-2623-4133-bb56-846ceb348230 Embargo date 2014-11-07 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2014 Shinde, S. Files PDF Business_model_design_roadmap_.pdf 4.4 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3f115d56-2623-4133-bb56-846ceb348230/datastream/OBJ/view