How we look at Innovation portfolio management
The other week at the Lean Startup Summit I introduced our ROI calculator in a couple of innovation accounting roundtable sessions. The sessions were overbooked
The corporate ‘Innovation Mascot’
-”Ok, we agree, let’s try innovation. We’ll start slow, with 2 or 4 startups and see what happens”. I have heard this often enough. It seems a logical thing to do, try something first. The problem lies in the fact that people often forget that investing in ideas is, and always will be, a betting game. So the chances of these two or four startups becoming a success are slim considering the odds of 2 out of 10 will make it big.
How we co-create corporate startups
Creating and running startups as part of a corporate is hard. It’s because the whole organization of a corporate is heavily optimized on execution. And
De corporate startup; innoveren binnen een gevestigd bedrijf
Technologische ontwikkelingen zorgen voor steeds snellere veranderingen en vernieuwingen en gevestigde organisaties lijken die exponentiële groei en versnelde digitale veranderingen niet altijd bij te kunnen houden. Het succes van startups, die met kleine teams in een heel ander ontwikkeltempo wel op deze veranderingen in kunnen spelen, blijft niet onopgemerkt.
De reis van 24 maanden naar product / market fit
Hoe lang duurt het meestal om alle vier de fasen te doorlopen en welk type investering past in elke fase?
The 24-month journey to product/market fit
How long does it usually take to go through all four phases and what type of investment fits every stage?
Introducing the Startup Progress Barometer
How we define the progress of startups towards product/market fit Ever since we introduced our NEXT Canvas, we have been thinking about how we can
Investment should not be the single goal of a founder
“-Can you tell me what you would look for in a startup so I can properly build my MVP?” I am at a Meetup where
How to turn your risky assumptions into Experiments
Once you have filled in your NEXT Canvas, you are stuck with a pile of stickies filled with assumptions. Do they all need to be