What is a Corporate Venture Builder A Corporate Venture Builder is an innovation department that creates new corporate startups in succession. Corporate Venture Builders spin
At GroundControl we’re a big fan of David Bland’s Testing Business Ideas book because it closely matches how we look at the journey from a great idea to a validated business model and it gives a lot of examples of which experiments you can run to de-risk as much as possible. You could even say that GroundControl is Testing Business Ideas software.
From our experience, your corporate startup will only succeed if the key stakeholders of the core business are being managed correctly. But to do so,
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
How to start with innovation accounting? We start with measuring the following three innovation KPIs from corporate startups.
The NEXT Canvas and the BMC are not mutually exclusive, but work well together as tools to create, test and renew ideas.
The topic of how to structure the perfect corporate innovation lab comes up regularly when talking to innovation managers.
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?
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
How long does it usually take to go through all four phases and what type of investment fits every stage?
At NEXT we decided to drop the word MVP and use solution experiment, prototype, or first version instead.
At NEXT Amsterdam we believe in helping others. Not only startup founders but also our fellow (informal) investors. That is why we are sharing our
We share our insights and 3 selected long-reads about coporate innovation in our weekly email update.
We’re trying to make this website better for Innovation Managers and would love your input.
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