The Method

a journey from Opportunity to Ownership, and back

The Method

a journey from Opportunity to Ownership, and back

 

 

• The roots of HippoMeter are in the discoveries of our early careers as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The scientific foundation is on our PhD theses and the award-winning university experiments and action research, that followed, on the vehicle value of Ownership when realising an Opportunity.

 

• The proof-of-concept was achieved through the concept we created for the Central Finland Chamber of Commerce. Kasvu Open, which our method empowers, received the European Enterprise Promotion Award and the Internationalisation Award of the President of the Republic of Finland in 2018.

 

• The HippoMeter method introduces a progressive, rigorous, tested and proven framework for the art and science of high-impact business creation. Based on 18 pilots engaging 429 people from 191 startups in 34 countries, HippoMeter works across industries, technologies, business models, and development stages.

 

The HippoMeter framework gears around 7 core elements

 

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Opportunity

Deals with the problem, the nature and level of pain and demand, the size and growth of market, and the solution value being offered.

 

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Scalability

Deals with the current technical and functional readiness of the solution, the potential for a scalable offering, and the overall technology advantage.

 

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Defensibility

Deals with what all can be done and what has been done to protect the solution and the related value chain.

 

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Capability

Deals with the current managerial capacity, requirements, and readiness of the organization to execute the envisioned scaling of operations.

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Profitability

Deals with the economics of the business case, resources at hand, revenue logic, earning power, financial projections, and funding needs.

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Market Entry

Deals with current vs. targeted market position and status of go-to-market measures to successfully reach market acceptance.

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Ownership

Deals with Who owns and Why owns, the mindset of controlling owners and who all should be engaged, and How, to seize the Opportunity.

 

"The knowledge to achieve scaleup readiness is difficult to find, expensive, and time-consuming to build. We’ve squeezed the best wisdom into a unique algorithm and tool that enable every Founder Team to create it for themselves, instantly and affordably."

Marko Seppä, Founder & CEO of Hippo Enabler