All Working With Startups articles
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ArticleConnecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units
Ayal Somech, Director of Portfolio Development, Boeing Horizonx Ventures, shares how his team executed a quick win.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Podcast
All Your Innovation Questions, Answered
We answer questions on corporate innovation submtted by listeners. Get advice on H3 innovation, going from good to great, and spreading innovation company-wide.
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Q&A
Working with Startups after Acquisition?
“I’m looking for insights into how to work with a startup when they are bought out,” one member asks. “We…wonder if someone has insights they would be willing to share.”
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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.
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Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets
Intel Capital has put over $12 billion into 1,500 startups since it was founded in 1991. Mark Rostick offers explains how it has endured.
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Innovation at The Nature Conservancy
Jennifer Chin of The Nature Conservancy discusses the organization’s Sustainability Accelerator, and what corporates can learn from nonprofits…
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‘Culture Matching’ with the Right Startups
“Corporate innovation…teams spend little time assessing culture’s role in…[working] with startups,” writes W.L. Gore’s Paul Campbell. Get advice on how to avoid that fate…
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Inside AXA Next’s Innovation Avenues
AXA Next unites the French insurance company’s innovation initiatives. Learn more about AXA’s different innovation funds and how the company explores the insurtech.
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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.
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On Demand Live Call
Partnerships at Bayer’s Innovation Center
Dr. Chris Haskell discusses how Bayer partners with startups, academic institutions, and other corporates at the company’s Innovation center.
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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.
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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.
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Research Report
Startup Engagement: Best Practices for Large Organizations
Learn how some of the top-performing organizations in the world design strategies to engage with startups.
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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.
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Podcast
Playing In the Startup Sandbox
Should big companies even try to plug in to the startup ecosystem? We talk with Arvind Purushotham, the Head of Venture Investing at Citi Ventures, and others to find out.
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How Truck Manufacturer PACCAR is Innovating for the Long Haul
Tesla isn’t alone in the ring of companies experimenting with electric, autonomous, and smarter commercial vehicles.
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On Demand Live Call
The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Engage with Accelerators
Pano Anthos, managing partner of New York-based retail accelerator XRC Labs, shares best practices for working with accelerators.
