YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) engineers, designers, business developers). – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”. (I’m Venture studios work as co-founders with a founding team, with the larger ones assigning dedicated internal teams for each startup idea (e.g., Previously posted on PEHub.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Otherwise it's a great idea.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 24, 2013
million) worth of hardware and software technology tools that’s developed as an incubation center for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working on high-value design and engineering services. Hopefully, this would also lead to greater economic and technological development in Malaysia as a whole.”
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