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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…

Risky assumptions and Experiments, where do I start?

Once you have filled in your canvas, you are stuck with a pile of stickies filled with assumptions. Do they all need to be tested? Is every single one of them risky? Where do I start?!

An executive summary of The Corporate Startup

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

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…

Introducing the Lean sprint

Most startups are familiar with development sprints of 1 or 2 weeks. They try to plan work that ‘belongs’ together and release a new version either at the end of the sprint or when the work is done. That structure works pretty well and helps building a flow into your company.

Introducing the NEXT Canvas

The NEXT Canvas is a product-lifecycle framework created to test ideas and…

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?