Working With Startups

How Reliant Energy and Google are Addressing a More Competitive Market

Go for Launch: Structural, Sotero & Sophya

How Are Innovation Labs in Silicon Valley Changing?

Go for Launch: Rugged 3D, Spaces & Liteboxer

Go for Launch: Interviewed, 3XR & Plannuh

How Reliant Energy and Google are Addressing a More Competitive Market
Go for Launch: Structural, Sotero & Sophya
How Are Innovation Labs in Silicon Valley Changing?
Go for Launch: Rugged 3D, Spaces & Liteboxer
Go for Launch: Interviewed, 3XR & Plannuh

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."

Six Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits

Raphael Guillet was a co-founder of the first startup that the $4 billion hospitality company Accor acquired. Since then, Accor has bought about a dozen other startups…

Connecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units

Ayal Somech, Director of Portfolio Development, Boeing Horizonx Ventures, shares how his team executed a quick win.

What Can Go Wrong with Corporate Venture Capital Initiatives

Hunter Ashmore, co-founder of IndustrialML, laid out nine things that can go wrong when companies decide to set up a corporate venture capital group.

25 Recent Data Points and Charts for Innovators in Large Organizations

This presentation includes 25 charts, graphs and rankings—all published in 2018 or 2019—that are relevant to people working on innovation and R&D initiatives in large organizations. The material comes from Innovation Leader research reports, as well as reports produced by Deloitte, KPMG, BCG, and others. You can download the presentation in PDF or PowerPoint form.

How TeakOrigin Survived the Death of Two Innovation Labs

It’s rare that a project survives the death of the innovation lab that hatched it. But a handheld scanner that could analyze the freshness of a piece of fruit or fish created in the Hong Kong offices of the multinational grocer Tesco, survived not one but two near-death experiences.

A Magna Carta for Corporate-Startup Collaborations

In this book excerpt, Trond Undheim, entrepreneur and former head of the MIT Startup Exchange, shares four elements of effective corporate-startup interactions, and some of the factors that can lead to failure or frustration.