Alignment means that you conform the business model to existing templates about how to run similar businesses like yours

Alignment means that the choices that you make in one building block have implications for the other building blocks. When the right resources and activities are in place to deliver the value proposition, then you are aligning these building blocks.

You cannot start a business if you don’t know all the elements of your business model.

It is important that you fill in the business model canvas in a clean and proper way.

Not having the right idea. Most people would love to start a venture, but they are just waiting for the right idea.

Regulation! There is so much regulation and red tape that makes it impossible to start a venture!

Having enough money. People have great ideas, but they just don’t have the money to get themselves started.

The fear of having an irregular income. The fact that you would not be able to predict whether you would earn any money, and/or how much, makes people prefer the stability of being an employee.

Every entrepreneurial project begins with having an idea.

Successful entrepreneurs just have better ideas.

Failed entrepreneurs are people that have great ideas but bad execution.

Ideas can be as much the result of entrepreneurial exploration, as they can be the beginning.

Yes, as long as they move their offices in a garage.

Yes, as soon as they search for novel opportunities that require them to develop and explore new recipes for success, large companies can be in entrepreneurial mode.

No, large companies are known for perfecting the execution of well-functioning strategies.

No, only people can be entrepreneurial, not organizations.