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Canvases and templates

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A canvas puts a business model on one page: each box holds a hypothesis you test with customers. The Lean Canvas, by Ash Maurya, is a variant of the Business Model Canvas adapted to startups. This guide gathers free templates for both, in PowerPoint and Google Slides, and how to choose the right canvas for your project.

A canvas puts a business model on one page. Each box holds a hypothesis, and your job is to test each one with customers.

Start with the comparison of canvases, written in 2013, when they began to replace the business plan. The Business Model Canvas, the Lean Canvas and their cousins each suit a different project.

The templates are free: the Lean Canvas in French and the Business Model Canvas, both in PowerPoint and Google Slides, a Lean Canvas in English, and the customer profile of Value Proposition Design.

Then the canvases at work. The Innovation Canvas came out of using the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas on hundreds of projects: it keeps what helps a team talk about customers and their problems, and drops the rest. The one million euro question tests the revenue box of any canvas: how many customers it takes to make one million a year. The Culture Map, another canvas, maps how a team works: one corporate team did it in two and a half hours.

Beyond the canvas: what a business will not do, how to organise once the model works, 55 business model patterns, and whether a startup still needs a business plan.

Free templates to download

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  3. Visualize your business model in 15 minutes flat

    A short IDEO video made for HackFwd: how to draw your business model in fifteen minutes to make it clear and share it.

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  4. Business Model Generation – by Alexander Osterwalder

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Templates to download

  1. Le Lean Canvas en français : modèle à télécharger

    Téléchargez directement le powerpoint du Lean Canvas en Français. Et la version Google Slide. Le Lean Canvas est une variante du Business Model Canvas, adapté …

    7 min de lecture Lean Startup FR · EN

  2. A PowerPoint template for the Lean Canvas

    So, the Lean Canvas is making its way into people’s minds. You can create and edit yours on the Lean Stack website. I had a …

    2 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

  3. PowerPoint template for the Business Model Canvas

    Companies use Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas more and more often. Sometimes called the BMC, it has now become an essential tool of …

    1 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

  4. PowerPoint Template for Customer Profile in Value Proposition Design

    “The more you know your customers, the more you can help them.” an old friend used to remind me The Customer Profile is useful to …

    1 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

Using the canvases

  1. Don't start your startup without a Lean Canvas

    The post shares a Draft.io page on the Lean Canvas, written with Franck. It presents the nine boxes of Ash Maurya's canvas in the order you fill them …

    2 min read Lean StartupLinkedIn FR · EN

  2. The one million euro question: how many customers does your idea need?

    One question tests a revenue model in under an hour: how many customers do you need to make one million euros a year? How to work out the value of a customer, then two checks that kill bad ideas early.

    4 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

  3. Starting on the right track with the Innovation Canvas

    Over the past years, I have used both the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas on hundreds of projects. Those canvases have helped me …

    3 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

  4. The Culture Map in action

    This is what I learned using the Culture Map tool with a corporate team. First a bit of context: I have been following Dave Gray’s …

    2 min read Lean Startup FR · EN

  5. The Lean Roadmap, by Nicolas Nemni

    Nicolas Nemni proposes a Lean Roadmap Canvas to answer the two questions every startup product manager faces: when to add a feature, and which one. The …

    1 min read Lean StartupLinkedIn

Going further

  1. The Anti-BMC: how to make real strategic choices

    The Business Model Canvas describes what a business will do; the Anti-BMC asks what it will not do. Four questions force real strategic choices: which …

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  2. Implementing your business model with the Galbraith Star Model

    Strategyzer introduces Jay Galbraith's Star Model to execute a business model once it has been found: align five points of the organisation, strategy …

    1 min read Corporate EntrepreneurLinkedIn

  3. A library of business model patterns

    The Business Model Navigator, built by the BMI Lab and the University of St. Gallen, lists 55 recurring business model patterns, each with a short …

    1 min read InnovationLinkedIn

  4. Need a business plan for your startup? How Gemmyo started

    Revolutionising French fine jewellery by giving it a young, trendy image. That was the bet of Pauline, Charif and Malek, who founded Gemmyo in …

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