How to measure that innovations are moving forward
We struggle to iterate quickly – I’d like to identify metrics to demonstrate that innovations are moving forward? This challenge from the first Group Call at Innov8ers
August 4, 2020
Timan Rebel
Founder & CTO GroundControl
Timan Rebel has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and was the founder & CEO of the predecessor of Hyves, SB/SD, the largest social network in The Netherlands for youngsters at that time with over 1 million users. Timan sold SB/SD to Telegraaf Media Group in 2007.
Timan later co-founded a company called Snowciety, the media blog Fast Moving Targets, and coached several ventures ofThe Next Web as its Entrepreneur in Residence. He was also closely involved with the start of the Lean Startup movement in Netherlands, being a founding mentor to Lean Startup Machine, Evolv and several other events such as LeanCamp in the period 2011-2015.
When Rockstart got started in 2011, the founders Rune and Don asked him and Esther Gons to organise several workshops around Lean Startup, startup analytics and work on further improving and developing Rockstart Accelerator’s curriculum. He consequently became a lead mentor and coach in several of Rockstart’s accelerator programmes (Web&Mobile, Smart Energy).
Together with Esther Gons, he is also an investor in several startups such as Cocoon, Studycredits and Butleroy where he invests with cash and access to his custom made 2-year accelerator program for startups.
Articles by Timan Rebel
The 3 innovation KPIs you should measure to get started with innovation accounting
How to start with innovation accounting? We start with measuring the following three innovation KPIs from corporate startups.
February 24, 2020
The difference between the NEXT Canvas and the Business Model Canvas
The NEXT Canvas and the BMC are not mutually exclusive, but work well together as tools to create, test and renew ideas.
June 5, 2019
Using the Startup Studio model to structure Corporate Innovation Labs
The topic of how to structure the perfect corporate innovation lab comes up regularly when talking to innovation managers.
October 10, 2018
Portfolio management is a long-tail game
When looking at the success of startups, a common belief is that one third of the companies fail, one third return their money and one third of the companies become successful enough to really move the needle on your investment portfolio. But is that true?
September 21, 2018
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
July 25, 2017
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?
April 7, 2017
Why we stopped building MVP’s
At NEXT we decided to drop the word MVP and use solution experiment, prototype, or first version instead.
September 7, 2016
The four criteria we select startups on
This is Part 3 of our Investing series. At NEXT Amsterdam we believe in helping others. Not only startup founders but also our fellow (informal)
July 5, 2016
Invest with courage
This is Part 2 of our Investing series. There is often a lot of debate about choices investors make. “Why on earth did Investor X
June 29, 2016
How we select startups and why: The investment thesis
We often get the question of how we select our startups and why. Not only from startups but also from Angel investors. That’s why we
June 21, 2016
How to apply Agile to validate business models: the Lean Sprint
Most startups are familiar with agile development sprints of 1 or 2 weeks. They try to plan work that ‘belongs’ together and release a new
May 31, 2016
