- A mix of chain and franchise business model
- Ad-supported (subsidized) business model
- Affiliate business model
- Aggregator business model
- Agency-based business model
- AIaaS business models
- Asymmetric business models
- Attention merchant business model
- Barbell business model
- Bidding multi-brand platform model
- Blitzscaler-mode business model
- Blockchain-based business models
- Bundler model
- Cash conversion cycle or cash machine model
- Cloud-as-a-service (CaaS) business models
- The discount business model focuses on high quality
- Distribution based business model
- Direct-to-consumers business model
- Direct sales business model
- E-commerce marketplace business model
- Educational niche business model
- Family-owned integrated business model
- Feeding model
- Franchising business models
- Franchained and reverse franchained
- Freemium model (freemium as a growth tool)
- Free-to-play model
- Freeterprise model
- Gatekeeper model
- Heavy-franchised business model
- Humanist enterprise business model
- EdTech: enhanced education through digitalization ad tech platforms
- Enterprise business model built on complex sales
- Fintech: digitalizing the financial system
- Instant news business model
- Last-mile delivery, on-demand business models
- Lock-in business model
- Long-tail business model
- Loss leader business model
- Management consulting business model
- Market-maker model
- Marketplaces business models
- Multi-brand business model
- Multi-business model
- Multi-sided platform business model
- Multimodal business model
- Multi-product (Octopus) business model
- On-demand subscription-based business model
- One-for-one business model
- Open-Source Business Model
- Open Core Business Model
- Peer-to-peer business model
- Platform-agnostic model
- Platform business model
- Play-to-earn business model
- Privacy as an innovative business model
- Proptech, or real estate on steroids (through digital and tech)
- Razor and blade model
- Retail business model
- Real-time insurance business model
- Self-serving model
- Slow, fast, ultrafast fashion and real-time retail
- Space-as-a-service model
- Subscription-based business model
- Surfer model: reverse-engineering the gatekeeper
- Three-sided marketplace model
- User-generated content business model
- User-generated AI-amplified model
- Unbundler model
- Vertically integrated business model
- Wholesaler business model
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