The Method to the Madness of Venture Building

is a system that has been created, curated and matured for the last 20 years to help move academic research to the market and thus, provide a solution to real and relevant problems. It is remarkably flexible and works as if it were a business model toolbox (actually we called that way before), where you can use each tool when and as much as you need it, without forgetting that there is a specific process to follow.

With EBELI you can design and develop New Ventures based on technology, not based on technology, for profit, not for profit, aimed at high impact, focused on public policy, etc.

Experiment the several stages of EBELI with key objectives, inputs, tools and outputs.

Follow the process and repeat certain steps to improve the quality of the content you generate.

You can design and develop New Ventures based on technology, not based on technology, for profit, not for profit, aimed at high impact, focused on public policy, etc.

Learn to use the best tools, TRUST IN THE PROCESS, AND THE ECOSYSTEM AROUND.

“The world’s entrepreneurs need this book…badly. This book is not at all like the best novel you ever read. In fact, it’s more like an instruction manual or user guide for a complex piece of equipment like a laptop, a lawnmower, or a chainsaw. That, in fact, is just what a startup is, and the book, like The Startup Owner’s Manual it embraces often, is similarly what an entrepreneur needs: an encyclopedic manual that you never really want to read cover-to-cover, but also never want to misplace! When? Pretty much always, as founders confront the hundreds of issues, choices, processes, and missteps that come together, on rare occasion, to give birth to a repeatable, scalable, profitable enterprise that fulfills the dreams of skilled, tenacious, tireless entrepreneurs with great product, marketing, and more.”

Bob Dorf, a lifelong entrepreneur, co-author of the legendary Startup Owner’s Manual with Steve Blank.

“This handbook progressively emerged from the work of a group of entrepreneurs coalesced around and led by one of the most creative persons who I know, Pedro López Sela.Collectively or individually, they have created new ventures across nations and industries, in advanced and emerging economies. Over the years, they have trained thousands of other entrepreneurs and worked with stakeholders in business, policy, and research. The EBELI handbook integrates a variety of management and innovation concepts and frameworks. But make no mistake: this is a unique and ambitious work that translates insights on venture building gained through years of work with entrepreneurs into actionable solutions. I strongly recommend reading EBELI handbook and, above all, applying it, in all possible contexts -including in the corporate world.”

Roberto Alvarez, ExecutiveDirector of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC) and Venture Partner at the NYC-based Seldor Capital.