Working With Startups

How Shell and AXA Approach COVID-era Corporate Venture Capital

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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?

How Shell and AXA Approach COVID-era Corporate Venture Capital
Three Services Bridgestone is Testing to Drive the Future of Car Maintenance
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?

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."

AXA Next on Shifts in the Startup World, and Fueling Innovation Virtually

The team from AXA Next US shares tips for running distributed teams, and changes they are seeing in the startup landscape.

How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program

Amish Parashar, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, share tips for building more successful corporate venture programs. Get tips on staffing, collaboration, and more.

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.