Master Thesis on, Skype: Reasons for growth by Nils Hammar In UK, an average household spent more than the double - £960 per year. The users relied on emails for sending files.Īccording to a survey done by Canada’s National Statistical Agency, a Canadian household spent over 1,000 CAD per year on regular and mobile phone calls, in 2004. There wasn’t any application which provided instant file sharing system among online users. There was a heavy dependency on the network providers for communication. Here're a few major problems that Skype tried to solve during its early days: I would suggest you to go through the entire post before jumping on to create your first Lean Canvas. If you are too eager to start on Lean Canvas for your business, log on to I have explained each block of Lean Canvas in detail below. Though Skype didn’t have the first mover advantage, they did certain things differently. The highlighted blocks in the Lean Canvas are the ones which in my opinion helped Skype to win over their competition and go ahead to revolutionize the communication industry. Video by Ash Maurya (~ 20 mins) explaining each block in Lean Canvas through an example.īelow is a Lean Canvas that I have come up for Skype. This can capture an entire business plan in a portable 1-page diagram. This helps you to zoom out to look at the entire business plan at a high level and predict probable risk areas in the business. What is a Lean canvas? Lean canvas is a perfect tool for brainstorming possible business ideas, where to start and tracking ongoing learnings. As on January 2016, there are 300 million active users. Skype user base grew significantly after the introduction of video calling. Later in 2011, video chat was introduced by partnering withĬomcast. Skype initially started as an instant messaging and a voice chat service. What if I say that you can use few ideas from Skype’s business to your own startup? Yes, today I will walk you through Skype’s business model during their initial years of business and hopefully you will be able to get few ideas for your startup as well. How many times have you thought about what did it take for Skype to be where they are today as a business? Have you ever used Skype? or do you use it daily or at least once every week?.
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