Working With Startups

What Can Go Wrong with Corporate Venture Capital Initiatives

25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations

How TeakOrigin Survived the Death of Two Innovation Labs

A Magna Carta for Corporate-Startup Collaborations

Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets

What Can Go Wrong with Corporate Venture Capital Initiatives
25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations
How TeakOrigin Survived the Death of Two Innovation Labs
A Magna Carta for Corporate-Startup Collaborations
Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets

The best large companies are developing new skillsets related to working with startups. These range from participating in accelerator programs to holding hackathons to creating new investment funds to simply assigning an executive to be a visible point of contact — an ambassador to the startup ecosystem.

Not all of those approaches will work for every company, and doing all of them at once is a recipe for disaster.

A good starting place in this topic area is our 25-page research report, "Startup Engagement: Best Practices for Large Organizations."

Five Elements of Successful Startup Engagement from the US Air Force

Steve Lauver, a Captain in the US Air Force, shares five elements of successful startup partnerships. He also discusses AFWERX, a program innovating within the Air Force.

Revera Senior Living on Tackling the Challenges of Aging Collaboratively

From involving residents to running internal idea challenges to partnering with young tech companies, Revera Senior Living seeks to innovate aging collaboratively.

How Comcast NBCUniversal’s LIFT Lab Created a Startup Program

Over a four years, Comcast NBCUniversal’s Danielle Cohn built LIFT Labs, a startup engagement program. She shares advice on how to design a startup strategy.

How the Shubert Organization Puts Startups on the Broadway Stage

We sat down with Kyle Wright, the Digital Projects Director at Shubert Ticketing, to learn more about the company’s innovation focuses and their new Broadway Tech Accelerator.