How your app will make money? Platform Business Model Canvas will answer it!

How digital-startups with multi-party-platforms frame their business model?

Traditional Business Model Canvas is known for simplicity and clarity. It has been adopted globally for more than two decades. It helps startups and established businesses visualize and communicate their model on a single page, and works across all industries like retail, services, and many more.

⏩ However, Digital-First Startups need something more as platform dynamics, multi-party value propositions, ecosystems, and network effects.
Such businesses need more agility and better alignment with the fast-paced, experimental nature of tech-driven businesses.

🎯 One such framework is **Platform Business Model Canvas**.

More suitable for marketplaces, apps, or platforms like Uber and Airbnb. It models multi-sided markets and value co-creation.

It also adds platform-specific components like:
🔹 Consumer Segments
🔹 Producer Segments
🔹 Consumer Value Propositions
🔹 Producer Value Propositions
🔹 Facilitation
🔹 Consumer Substitutes
🔹 Producers Substitutes
🔹 Interaction (Core transactions)
🔹 Platform Infrastructure
🔹 Governance
🔹 Data
🔹 Monetarization
🔹 Cost Model
🔹 Metrics

Similarly, it can be extended to founders and partners.
Have you used this? Any example you want to share?

Do you know any other such canvas useful for platforms?
Canvas Image Source: Wikipedia

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