InnerVentures

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    Couple of new things happening in the world of startup driven innovation since my last post, at least new things I’ve found – some articles/announcements are from a while ago. Here they are: HP’s new Tech Ventures arm looks to invest in emerging startups 8 principles for innovation in a corporate ecosystem Naspers Plants a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Entrepreneurial management over traditional management in highly uncertain times

    Most of this diagram comes from the book The Innovators Method which I read recently for and included in my trend report. The essence of the book and indeed my trend report is how to bring the lean startup approach into the organisation. I have made the commentary in the diagram at the top referring…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    As always there lots going on and the last few weeks have brought some interesting new announcements and great stories from the trenches.  From indifferent to Intrapreneur – Getting employees on board Autoglass parent company launches global startup accelerator Alibaba’s cloud service launches global program for startups 3 Big company practices that work for any…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • How old banks are learning from a new breed of tech start-ups

    I gave this (i.e. the Fintech scene) special coverage in a separate section of my trend report. Banks around the world are realising that in the rapidly developing world of smartphones and apps they are at risk of falling behind in the innovation race. Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    In this post I’m changing the format slightly by tagging the title with a different hashtag (which was partly for Twitter but had other purposes too). Instead of intrapreneurtrends that I used before, its now the new name of this site, its URL, the new hashtag I’m tracking on Twitter (see sidebar) and my new…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • World’s biggest startup? Samsung to reform corporate culture

    SEOUL (By Se Young Lee, Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. More here.  #research

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Jet Blue joins the corporates in the VC game

    I just found an announcement that JetBlue has formed an in-house venture capital program that will invest in startups “at the intersection of technology, travel and hospitality.” More here: http://www.jetblueventures.com/ #research

    Stephen Danelutti

  • What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

    From an article on the Harvard Business Rreview, the authors carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to this analysis, we identified four features that are common to pretty much all the unicorns and which we believe helps explain why they have been so successful. Unicorns…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    How to partner with a larger company when you’re a startup Why investors love spin-off startups The struggle with adapting the lean startup to the corporate environment Big Companies Must Embrace Intrapreneurship To Survive Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups Driving a culture of innovation with entrepreneurial thinking now being pushed at University How Large…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Corporate Innovation Trends – Report from CB Insights

    The blurb for the report says it all: The life of an S&P 500 company is rapidly declining and increasingly, the risks to these companies comes from an armada of startups and not a giant incumbent competitor. We dig into how corporations can use startups to innovate faster and how to make the important build,…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • More #intrapreneur trends being led by financial services

    From this article on the Financial Times (you may find its behind a paywall): Axa chief excited by technological change The chief executive of Europe’s second-biggest insurer by market capitalisation says that the industry is dealing with technological change unevenly. “That is great news,” he adds, explaining that it allows more nimble operators to win…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    Some very interesting articles over the last few weeks – here they are: MasterCard Announces Start Path Global Program – an accelerator to support Fintech startups. Like this statement on their site – very intrapreneurial: “Like a startup, we are always looking for ways to evolve. That’s why we have created a new partnership model…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship – awesome programs for the #intrapreneur

    Woah, just came across this site today with probably the most comprehensive and impressive Intrapreneurship program I’ve seen so far – definitely one for the #research files. Here it is: http://www.afce.co/

    Stephen Danelutti

  • How to think like a Startup

    Definitely one for Intrapraneurs

    Stephen Danelutti