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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 is focused on unknown business models.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. Would we signs of success early?

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

Up and Running

Too frequently, a concept is exciting but cannot be supported within the legal framework or is simply a recycled concept that is reliant upon ‘first mover’ advantage in their jurisdiction. ” Marijuana Business Daily put out a useful chart showing the profitability of each type of cannabis business— take a look here.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. How does he mitigate that?

India 115
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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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