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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator

The Startup Magazine

Participants receive the financial and technical support needed to mature nascent technologies that face long development cycles to the proof-of-concept level, helping them get to the point where they can access conventional sources of financial support to scale and launch into the marketplace. Source: Pexels. R&D Catalysts.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

Manufacturing innovations like 3D printing support quicker and cheaper prototyping and design. Instead of taking a year to develop and launch one product, it might be advantageous to run through four development cycles in smaller batches. One could argue that the same development will hold true in the hardware space.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning.

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The beginner’s guide to valuing and selling your app

The Next Web

You can then use the $1,200 as seed money to work on a new idea. If you’re going to let money be your primary reason for selling you need to be emotionally detached from the app. It’s simply an asset, which you are exchanging for money. If you’re a developer, you probably don’t have much marketing experience.

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Snaptrip case study – Solo founder hypothesis in action

The Equity Kicker

With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. We help founders develop a deep understanding of the problem so that they don’t have to rely on gut alone. Our unique model allowed him to get started straight away. USER RESEARCH.