2009 05 01 How To Build A Lean Startup Step By Step. How to design your Business Model as a Lean Startup? « Methodologist. If you spend time exploring innovation methodologies and models, you know that configuration of such frameworks largely apply new ideas, assembly and build upon previous work (hat off to science).
I have come to explore conformity of two emerging frameworks; the Business Model Ontology by Alex Osterwalder and the Lean Startup methodology by Eric Ries. The result, the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas mashup is illustrated below. With the Business Model Ontology Osterwalder proposes a single reference model based on the similarities of a wide range of business model configurations.
With the business model canvas (used as basis for the illustration above) Osterwalder describes nine building blocks that form a meta-business model.