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Innovate or die!

Apart from the well known adagium it is the most common answer I get when talking to companies about their most urgent reasons to…

An executive summary of The Corporate Startup

The best way to innovate is for a large company to view itself as an innovation…

Innovation never occurs in a void

It is rather more likely a synthesis across domains or even…

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?

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…

Governance is key to company-wide innovation.

A lot of organizations we work with today recognize the innovation rhythm and the difference between searching and executing. The rhythm of innovation is different and less linear than that of other corporate processes. Innovation is a search for a…

Introducing the Startup Progress Barometer

How we define the progress of startups towards product/market fit

Ever since we introduced our NEXT Progress Canvas, we have been thinking how we can define at which stage a startup is…

Startup Impact Week: a mini-accelerator backed by two top Dutch Startup Studios

Recently we launched the application process for the first 5-day mini-accelerator that focuses entirely on getting your startup ready for real business. The program is backed by two successful…

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 investors (VC’s mostly) sit around the table with Saas startups. Others are nodding at this question, it is the thing they…