Niek Huizenga

www.about.me/niekhuizenga

Business CompetitionWorkshop Day 1

Business Models and Pitching

Agenda for today

9:00 – Introductions

9:30 – Business Game

12:00 – Break

12:30 – Introduction to

Business Models

14:00 - Recap and closing

Homework!!! FB.com/NWU.EDC

Welcome to the Enterprise Development Center

Agenda for tomorrow

9:00 – Present your BMC

10:30 – Introduction to pitching

12:30 – Recap and closing

FB.com/NWU.EDC

Welcome to the Enterprise Development Center

Introductions

Are you a nice person?(people prefer to do business with nice people)

Did you ever had any ideas for a business, service or product?

(not necessarily good ideas)

Have you ever executed one of your ideas?

(It doesn’t matter if you failed)

Did you try to make money with this project?

Entrepreneurs embrace changes

But entrepreneurs are not always understood

Setting up a business is a processThis means: persistence!!

Niek Huizenga niek@yeah.eu | www.niekhuizenga.com

Lecturer

Entrepreneur

Investor

Consultant

Projects in Silicon Valley USA

coworking space & startup center

coworking space & startup center

coworking space & startup center

coworking space & startup center

Expectations

What are they?

Today and tomorrow is about creativity!!

Is your idea ready to fly?

Business plan? NOT YET!

Step 2:

How does your

business model work?

Step 3:

Is it realistic and feasible?

Step 1:

Define motives and

ideas

Step 4:

Customer feedback

Step 5:

Start your business

Steps:

1. Idea and motives

2. Business Model

3. Reality check

4. Customer feedback

5. Start!!

Explain!

What problem do you solve?

Who are your customers?

How do you contact your customers?

How to build a relation with your customers?

How do your customers pay you?

What resources do you need?

What activities do you have to perform?

Who are your partners?

What are your costs?

Keep your thoughts…

Business Game(change slide deck)

Time for lunch

Remember?

What problem do you solve?

Who are your customers?

How do you contact your customers?

How to build a relation with your customers?

How do your customers pay you?

What resources do you need?

What activities do you have to perform?

Who are your partners?

What are your costs?

Business plan? NOT YET!

Step 2:

How does your

business model work?

Step 3:

Is it realistic and feasible?

Step 1:

Define motives and

ideas

Step 4:

Customer feedback

Step 5:

Start your business

Steps:

1. Idea and motives

2. Business Model

3. Reality check

4. Customer feedback

5. Start!!

Niek Huizenga

www.about.me/niekhuizenga

Business Model Generation

Purpose of the Business Model Canvas

• Learn to use a powerful method that helps you to transform an idea into a money-generating business concept.

Remember?

What problem do you solve?

Who are your customers?

How do you contact your customers?

How to build a relation with your customers?

How do your customers pay you?

What resources do you need?

What activities do you have to perform?

Who are your partners?

What are your costs?

Restaurant ‘Crispy Chicken’

One idea, multiple business models….

Come up with an original business model for this restaurant.

Expectations

Where they met?

Homework for tomorrow!!

niek@yeah.eu

www.about.me/niekhuizenga