Startup Grind Sacramento will be hosting a free virtual workshop featuring Right Box Founder, Josh David Miller (JDM) who will discuss how startups can design a strong business model. No one invests in weak business models, and no successful business is built on one. And yet most early-stage startups and small businesses have generally terrible foundations that go on to plague them in later stages. Without a crystal-clear understanding of how your company meets the four basic components of any business model, you’re doomed to fail. Suboptimal business models sink your chances of: -Raising money -Getting customers -Turning a profit -Scaling your company -And more! In this talk, JDM — aka Josh David Miller, aka “the shredder of business models” — will walk through the process of generating the best possible business model hypotheses for early-stage startups, using design thinking. Some of the things we’ll talk about in this workshop include: -What a business model is (technically); -How to succinctly pitch yours; -Common areas of weakness in startup business models; -What investors look for in a business model; and -How to turn unknowns into experiments and experiments into data. Most importantly, JDM’s going to show you the tools he uses to: 1. Find the weakest part of your business model; 2. Turn it into a question; and 3. Develop a path to fix it. Who’s this talk for? This talk is geared toward the founders of companies who have not yet achieved product-market fit. You could be: -A solo founder with nothing but an idea looking to get started; -A founding team with a product and revenue looking to scale; -And everyone in between. So, what do you say? Let’s talk business models!