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Virtual Business model

Pattern description

V irtual Business Model (not to be confused with Virtual Business), is a way to organize an innovative startup company and facilitates increased flexibility in the utilization of both financial and human resources and can promote development of new ideas and inventions.

Inventive problems

The company should be large and have a complex structure to perform a large number of diverse operations for the development, production, and delivery of a complex product to the customers.

The company should be small and have a simple structure in order to:

  • reduce the variety and complexity of the company activities;
  • focus on a small number of core operations;
  • have a small stuff;
  • minimize the cost of development, production, sale, and delivery of products to customers.