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A structured solution for every major question! Here you'll find the concrete issues that every entrepreneur faces during the life of his or her project, along with methods, models and approaches for thinking about and solving them. These approaches made the BlaBlaCar Mission a success, so why shouldn't they work for your project too? These sheets are designed to be read, re-read and shared!

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A structured solution for every major question! Here you'll find the concrete issues that every entrepreneur faces during the life of his or her project, along with methods, models and approaches for thinking about and solving them. These approaches made the BlaBlaCar Mission a success, so why shouldn't they work for your project too? These sheets are designed to be read, re-read and shared!

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Think


IMAGINE

How to find good ideas

THE LISTEN METHOD

What makes a product that lasts? What can you do to ensure you always offer the best product possible? What’s the difference between a product you use and a product you love? What’s the best way to handle feedback from unhappy users? How do you make your product iconic?

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FOCUS

How to design a project that works

THE FOCUS METHOD
What makes a product that lasts? What can you do to ensure you always offer the best product possible? What’s the difference between a product you use and a product you love? What’s the best way to handle feedback from unhappy users? How do you make your product iconic?
STRUCTURE

Find your kind of business

THE MAP METHOD

Qui sont les acteurs qui contribuent à votre entreprise ? Qui doit faire quoi et de quelle manière ?  Comment s’assurer que les processus sont compris et respectés par tous ? Pourquoi mettre en place un mode opératoire ?

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CONVINCE

Inspire and unite

THE PITCH METHOD

How do you make sure the world understands your project’s usefulness? How do you win over your first users, your future colleagues and investors? Is it better to use emotion or technique? Can you tell everyone the same story?

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PLAN

Map the path to your goal

THE ROADMAP METHOD

Quel est votre objectif ? Quel est le chemin pour y arriver ? En combien de temps ? Quels obstacles anticiper ? Quelle souplesse accorder à la progression ? Qui impliquer dans la planification ? Combien cela va coûter en temps, argent, énergie ?

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Create


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THE BRAND

Express your identity

THE VANOLO METHOD

What image do you want to project? What do you want to change in your market? What’s your story? What tone of voice will you tell it in? How close are you to your clients? Who are your competitors, your role models, your counter-models?

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THE VALUE CAPTURE MODEL

Power the project

THE CATALYST METHOD

How will your business work? Is its profitability based on product sales or ancillary services? What’s the best way to structure your pricing? What’s the real need you’re meeting? What are your initial and subsequent business costs and revenues?

THE PLATFORM

Facilitate transactions

THE ROCKET METHOD

What do Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and BlaBlaCar have in common? What model are marketplaces, social networks, dating sites, payment systems and app stores converging towards? Which model do new innovative ‘unicorns’ prefer, both at home and abroad?

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PRICING

Find the right price for everyone

THE 3C'S METHOD

How much does it cost? How much am I prepared to pay? Can I get a better version for the same price, or free of charge? Am I prepared to relinquish a particular option in order to pay less? Is there a promotional code? Or am I eligible for a referral benefit?

TRUST

Building reliability

THE DREAMS FRAMEWORK

Why buy something second hand online from someone you don’t know? Why get unafraid into a stranger’s car to share their journey? Why rent your flat out to strangers who could steal things?

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Grow


START UP

Finance your first product

WEIGH THE OPTIONS

Select the right financing solutions by considering equity dilution and weighing up your commitments. Financing your project should not slow your mission.

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RECRUIT

Attract and welcome the best talent

THE 10 FILTERS METHOD

Why work with you? Why create this new position? What skills and values do you need? Wouldn’t this position suit an employee looking to be promoted? What’s the best way to recruit effectively? promouvoir ? Comment être efficace dans vos recrutements ?

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PROGRESS

Solve and evolve

THE STOIC METHOD
Why are there so many hurdles to cross? How do you progress when everything seems to be in the way? Yet another technical problem! What do you say to an unhappy client? How do you bounce back? How can you persuade the authorities to listen?
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ACCELERATE

Simplify and solidify

THE PERFORM METHOD

How do you go faster and further? What’s slowing you down? Can your team and product cope with increasing volumes? Do you need to tighten the rules to grow better? Is it time to restructure to improve performance and accelerate?

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INTERNATIONALISE

Expand abroad

THE LEAP METHOD

When and why expand overseas? What’s the best way to go about it and which partners should you choose? What do you need to prepare? Are you well-equipped for the journey? How do you finance the operation? What are the pitfalls to avoid along the way? And once you have established an international presence, how do you manage a project at scale?

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Sustain


THE CULTURE

Bring your values to life

THE HEART METHOD OF GENERATING GOOWILL

How are decisions made in your company? Is it easy for staff to give each other feedback? Are they proud of where they work? Does your business have key principles? Is risk-taking encouraged? And what is the point of business culture?

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THE PRODUCT

Staying on top

L’EFFORT BEST

Qu’est-ce qu’un produit qui dure ? Que faire pour offrir toujours le meilleur produit possible ? Quelle différence entre un produit qu’on utilise et un produit qu’on adore ? Que faire des retours d’utilisateurs mécontents ? Comment rendre votre produit culte, iconique ?

INNOVATION

Don't get left behind

5D INSTINCTS VERSUS THE 5E METHOD

Who invented the first digital cameras and one of the very first social networks? To whom do we owe the graphic interfaces on our hardware, and mice for computers? How do you explain some of the majors’ loss of momentum? How do you avoid being overtaken by a road sweeper?

OUR HUMAN NATURE

Surviving against machines

THE GLASS METHOD OF SUSTAINING HOPE FOR HUMANITY

Will artificial intelligence allow machines to overtake humans? Will they develop a conscience? Will we be ‘augmented’ by science, as the transhumanism movement proposes? Will we go beyond the ‘technological singularity’ moment, after which progress will move too fast for us, some time between 2030 and 2050?

THE LONG TERM VIEW

Maintaining relevance and modernity

THE CASE METHOD

How do you stay relevant in a constantly changing world? How do you implement change from a continuity perspective? What do you need to maintain? How do you think big and small at the same time, in order to contribute to the world around us at different levels?

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