Building Business Models for New Ventures
Can your startup make money?
Teach your students how to build business models that determine whether a new venture can be profitable. In just 25 minutes, they’ll engage in activities and videos that bring business models to life!
Microlearning for Future Entrepreneurs
Marketplace Microsimulations are built on microlearning theory. This is the theory that we retain knowledge better when we repeat and practice it in small batches.
Our new Business Model Microsimulations will engage students with a mix of animated lectures and interactive challenges. Each one takes less than 25 minutes to complete, and students can play as many times as they need to master the content.
Explore the Business Model Microsimulations
Assessing the Profitability of Your Business Model
Based on the margin-burn-volume methodology, this Microsimulation lets students experiment with business models in several business scenarios and determine the profitability of two startups. Students learn about:
- Direct cost per unit
- Pricing
- Fixed overhead (Burn)
- Margin
- Volume to break even
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Estimating Costs for Your Business Model
Dive deeper into the concepts covered in Assessing the Profitability of Your Business Model. Your students will learn how to identify all costs involved in turning their vision into a functioning business. They will also use the Margin-Burn-Volume model to help a start-up business plan its costs and ensure it can launch with limited initial funding. Students will learn about:
- Identifying Costs
- Startup Costs
- Direct Costs
- Fixed Overhead or Burn
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Created with Dr. David Newton
Consultant and global provider of executive development programs in strategy, finance, and entrepreneurship
As author of Business Models for Entrepreneurial Ventures, Dr. David Newton draws on 35 years of new venture consulting to explain how Margin, Burn, and Volume affect every facet of venture development. More than 400 faculty members around the world use his book and Excel macro model in their entrepreneurship courses. His materials are also used in numerous venture forums around the U.S. to screen the feasibility and sustainability of new product-service concepts being presented to investors.
Dr. Newton taught undergrad and graduate students for 28 years as a full-time professor of entrepreneurship, finance, and strategy, first in the Pepperdine MBA program, then at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and then at Westmont in Santa Barbara, where he founded the Entrepreneurship program. He earned his BS in business administration, MBA in finance, and DBA in entrepreneurial finance. From 2012 to 2103, he served as Strategic Provost at The King’s College in New York City.
Since 2013, he has continued consulting to emerging growth ventures and teaching global executive development programs in strategy, finance, and entrepreneurship. This work has taken place across the United States through the Rady School of Management at the University of California – San Diego, as well as in Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East thru the Oxford Management Centre in UK and GLOMACS in Dubai. He has consulted over 400 emerging growth ventures, published more than 220 articles, and authored or co-authored 12 books.
Why Choose Microsimulations?
Get Started in Minutes
Microsimulations are easy to add to your accounting class. Get set up in less than 10 minutes with no manuals or prep work.
Customize for Your Class
Use our business model evaluation bundle or create your own. You choose when students can access each one.
Engage Your Students
Energize accounting students with game-like visuals exercises that increase their desire to learn and engage.
Increase Retention
Students can repeat each exercise multiple times to improve their score and their knowledge retention.
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- Find the right Microsimulations or bundles that work for your classroom.
- Share the access link with your students and get started. No download or setup needed.
