What is Lean Business Canvas?
About Lean Canvas
Lean Business Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions. It is adapted from Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas and optimized for Lean Startups. It replaces elaborate business plans with a single-page business model.
Entrepreneur Benefits
The Lean Canvas is the #1 tool to help entrepreneurs create their business model. LeanStack is a continuous innovation platform that helps early-stage entrepreneurs find repeatable and scalable business models.
Apply for Stipend
The first 12 to complete the course will receive 2 hours of consulting. Students must complete the course in its entirety to be eligible for this stipend.
Learn Lean Business Canvas Today!
Business plans take too long to write.
Key Partnerships
The Key Partnerships Building Block describes the network of suppliers and partners that make the business model work.
Key
Activities
The Key Activities Building Block describes the most important things a company must do to make its business model work
Key
Resources
Your Key Resources describe the most important assets required to make your business model work.
Value Proposition
Your Value Proposition describes the bundle of products and services that create value for a specific Customer Segment.
Customer Relationships
Your Customer Relationships describe the types of relationships your company establishes with specific Customer Segments.
Channels
Your Channels describe how your company communicates with and reaches your Customer Segments to deliver your Value Proposition.
Customer Segments
Your Customer Segments are the different groups of people or organizations your enterprise aims to reach and serve. This includes users who might not generate revenues, but which are necessary for the business model to work.
Cost
Structure
Your Cost Structure describes all costs incurred to operate your business model.
Revenue Streams
Your Revenue Streams represent the ways your company generates cash from each Customer Segment.
Get Started!
The Lean Canvas is the #1 tool to help entrepreneurs create their business model.
Meet the Instructors
Instructors
Christina Marie Noel
Social Entrepreneur
David Reeser
Founder/CEO OpiAID
Diane Durance
Michigan Capital Network
Emil Runge
First Flight Venture Center
Krista Covey
First Flight Venture Center
Lou Anne Flanders-Stec
EVP - Entrepreneurship
Rachael Newberry
Program Director at RIoT
Tom Fisher
Venture Advisor
Tom Snyder
Executive Director at RIoTWhat Students Say
Feedback
Lean Canvas helped us keep our ideas succinct yet robust. It feels like we actually fleshed something out without having to write a 20 page business plan! Amazing!
David Reeser
Founder and CEO at OpiAID
Lean Canvas is a brilliant tool for startups. Any startup should use this tool! Invaluable. Seriously.
Jack Fleming
Owner at Socialry Marketing
Extremely useful tool if you want to create a solid foundation for your startup. I'd recommend it for sure!
Derek Schmidt
President, SWELL Systems, Inc
Lean Canvas has been a HUGE asset for me in developing business models for my startups. As an entrepreneur, It's invaluable for me to be able to literally see my business in a visual format and assess it.
Dante V. Crescenzi
Founder, RocketLocal