Topics

• • May

    • #Sustainability as a Strategy
    • Business Model Breakdown: Fashion 2.0

  • Apr

    • The Entrepreneurship Era
    • Crowding the Runway : Funding & Fashion
    • Break it down: Business Model Breakdown
    • Beyond Organic : The New Groove of Food

  • Mar

    • New Finance : Funding the Niche
    • La Mode of Branding : 2013+ beyond
    • Business Modelling 2.0
    • Reality Check - The New 20%

  • Feb

    • New Finance - The Redistribution of Dealflow
    • Avant Garde : Moving Fashion Forward
    • Business Model Breakdown - ETSY
    • The Advent of Collaborative Commerce

  • Jan

    • Financing Early-Stage Enterprises – The Seedrs Report
    • The Reason to Empreender - Impact
    • Incubating the Impact-Driven Business Model
    • Business Model Breakdown - ASTA Networks
    • ReImagine : ReDesign : ReConnect

• • Dec

    • 2012 - Year in the Rearview
    • Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas
    • Strategy Sessions : Blackberry 10 + Product Launch
    • The Small Business Finance (R)evolution
    • A New Era of Business - FASHION

  • Nov

    • The Collaborative Economy- Inspiration from Spain
    • Business Model Breakdown – Collaborative Consumption

  • Oct

    • Renewable Energy + Crowdinvestment
    • Youth Entrepreneurship + Crowdfunding
    • One Young World – Gen Y Collab + Global Issues
    • London + Crowd Finance – the emergence of a new Financial Ecosystem
    • Crowdfunding + Latin America – My CFS follow up
    • The Crowdfunding Ecosystem - Evolved

  • Sep

    • The Road to Reason – be Unreasonable
    • A New Era of Business – FOOD
    • Crowdfunding Strategy – Summary
    • Trends Research - Summary
    • Building Blocks – SPREAD – the Social Media pipelines
    • Building Blocks – TEST – demand via crowdfunding

  • Aug

    • Crowded Judgment – projects worth crowdfunding #dos
    • Crowdfunding and the principle of Social Capital
    • Building Blocks - PLAN - Toolkit
    • Building Blocks - PLAN - the Strategy Kit
    • Build Brands that Matter
    • Shaking the Deck – the Resurgence of Brands

  • Jul

    • Building Blocks – PLAN – The Financial Model
    • Building Blocks – PLAN - the Business Model
    • Is Legalized Crowdfunding coming to Canada?
    • GEN Y Business - Welcome to Generation Collaboration
    • Building Blocks for the New-Era Business

  • Jun

    • Crowded Judgment™ - projects worth crowdfunding #uno
    • Strategy Session: Crowdinvesting + The Entrepreneur
    • Strategy Session: Crowdfunding + The Social Enterprise
    • Business Model Breakdown: Crowdfunding

  • May

    • What is Sustainable Growth?
    • Finance 2.0 – Wall Street Meets the Web
    • Social Enterprises and The Rise of the Impact Entrepreneur

  • Apr

    • My Crowdfunding Study - The Report
    • Strategy Case Study: RIM Launches the Playbook
    • Community, Collaboration & Co-creation – Driving A New Era of Business

  • Mar

    • Strategies for a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

  • Feb

    • The Future Frontier: Business in Big, Bad Brazil

  • Jan

    • My Crowdfunding Study

• • Dec

    • The New Strategic Focus of Lumos
    • The Brazilian Dream

  • Nov

    • Prototyping Ideas - A Visual Process
    • Crowdfunding and the Creation of the #neweconomy

  • Oct

    • Taking your Message to Market: Lessons from #15m
    • Beyond Reason – the Importance of Being Unreasonable

  • Sep

    • Cross-Cultural Marketing: social networks & the new frontier

  • Aug

    • Financial Modeling - Measure your Cashflow with our Free Beta Financial Model

  • Jul

    • What Do You Do When You Get an Idea?

  • Jun

    • RIM Playbook Launch – Lessons Learned and the Silver Lining

  • May

    • The Changing Face of Business

  • Apr

    • The Power of Socially-based Business Models

  • Mar

    • Businesses with Bang!™- AirBNB

  • Feb

    • Business Model Breakdown - Android
    • Creating a Business Model and Marketing Strategy for Apps
    • Business Planning Basics: Competitive Analysis the Social Media Way
    • Businesses with Bang!™ – ProFounder

  • Jan

    • Spurring Innovation: Summary – Saddle Up and Go
    • Part VI: Spurring Innovation - Does Wesley Clover have it right?
    • Part V: Spurring Innovation- Let the market be your Guru
    • Part IV - Spurring Innovation: Design Thinking and Business Model Innovation – A Dynamic Duo
    • Part III – Spurring Innovation: Catalyzing Creativity and Breaking down Silos
    • Part II: Spurring Innovation - Why Failure is a Misnomer
    • Part I: Spurring Innovation - Inspiration from Abroad
    • Intro: Bucking the Trend - Spurring Innovation in Canada

• • Dec

    • Happy New Year from Lumos
    • Happy Holidays
    • Brazil: An Emerging Hotbed for Entrepreneurs
    • Business Plan Basics: Put on your Hard Hat and Survey the Landscape
    • Businesses with Bang!™ - Chocri

  • Nov

    • Business Model Breakdown – PayPal
    • Business Plan vs. Business Model – The Differences and Where They Integrate
    • Social Entrepreneurship – Boulden up and Be Unreasonable
    • The Key Components of a Business Plan
    • Businesses with Bang!™ – M-Pesa

  • Oct

    • Business Model Breakdown – Community Lend
    • The Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP) – Government of Canada’s Stimulus for Innovation
    • Building a Website for your Business - the Basics
    • The Wisdom Behind Writing a Business Plan
    • Businesses with Bang!™ - Tesla Motors and Elon Musk

  • Sep

    • Business Model Breakdown – Mobile Apps
    • The New App Economy
    • No Fluff Marketing for Startups
    • Businesses with Bang!™ – Bling Nation
    • A New Cycle in Technology

  • Aug

    • Business Model Breakdown – Freemium
    • The Promise of Microfinance for Entrepreneurs
    • Cost Per Customer Acquisition (CPA)
    • Businesses with Bang!™ – Kickstarter
    • The Street Smarts for a Scalable Business Model (Part 4): Putting the Pieces Together

  • Jul

    • The Street Smarts for a Scalable Business Model (Part 3): Customer Validation
    • The Street Smarts for a Scalable Business Model (Part 2): Feasibility Study and Initial Validation
    • The Street Smarts for a Scalable Business Model (Part 1): Imagination and Creativity
    • Why Build a Financial Model?
    • The Key Components of a Business Model

  • Jun

    • Business Model Breakdown - Quirky.com
    • Where Lumos fits into the Business Picture and how it is Relevant to your Business
    • Basic Business Models
    • Business Model - What Is It?
    • Businesses with Bang!™ - Johnny Cupcakes
    • What Is The End Goal of Market Research?

  • May

    • How Design Impacts Strategy
    • The Blind Men and the Elephant - a Market Research Study
    • Why Design Matters – A Look at the Importance of Product Design
    • Idea Validation – What’s The Best Way?
    • The Top Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching: No Exit Strategy

  • Apr

    • I Paint Pictures with a Red Pen
    • The Top Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching: Hockey Stick Growth
    • Business by Design

  • Mar

    • The Top Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching: Diligence Not Done

  • Feb

    • What Every Start-Up Needs.....
    • Getting Financing - The Wow Factor

  • Jan

    • The Technology Start-Up: There's More to Life Than VC Dollars
    • The Love of Lumos