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What constitues a good startup problem

Most of the startups participating in one of my trainings are initially shocked at the inordinate amount of time I spend working on ‘the problem’. I’m certainly not alone there. Everyone who is regularly dealing with startups gets eventually frustrated to see how they concentrate en masse on building

When Star Wars will be shot on iPhone

When Star Wars will be shot on iPhone

As much as we are lead to believe, innovation is rarely straightforward and understandable. We think we get it from a TED talk or a trendy book, but it’s essentially the same as learning paragliding through YouTube. No one serious would recommend that. When I need people to understand

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You might need a Company Culture VP

In the past year or so, with so many media scandals about various company culture dysfunctions, many other corporate cultures being dissected, [https://biteable.com/blog/inspiration/company-culture-videos/]scrutinised and analysed, and the many advice published online, it seems about time to hire Company Culture VPs to ensure the culture

Most venture capital firms fail

Most venture capital firms fail because they aim for smart and don’t manage a portfolio big enough. This is what corporate need also to learn when playing with startups. If you seek breakthrough innovation it will catch you by surprise, not with selected smart business plans. [https://500hats.com/

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How to deal with startup fever in your company, part 1

While the first wave of the digital revolution is now well over, most corporations are victims of some level of rude awakening. Surprisingly enough for me, the sovereign cure for their lack of strategic vision has been isolated: startups. As it seems, six-month-old post-internet companies without cash-flow are deemed better

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Building corporate incubation with Monty Hall

A few days ago, I was discussing how wrapping your head around the Monty Hall problem could help you better understand the importance of failure in innovation. If you take it a step further today, we could argue that most corporate incubation programs should be build around this probabilistic calculation.

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35 Ways self-driving vehicles are happening before 2020

The key argument of doubters on how fast the self-driving vehicles will go live is risk and the social acceptability (or the lack thereof) of deaths from vehicles making choices on their own. Truth to be told, yes, social acceptability is a steep barrier to entry for adopting technologies at