Venture Building

Venture building is the process of systematically producing new companies, leveraging resources and expertise to accelerate growth.

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Top Venture Building Resources

Learnings From Building 24 Corporate Ventures

Corporate venture building is a hot topic in innovation, but most ventures fail. Bernd Schmidt and Matthias Kramer at Mantro share three early strategies to build new ventures with a focus on governance: Find, Build, and Grow.

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Model #1: Accelerators and Incubators - Innovationedge

Companies need to constantly innovate their business models to remain competitive. This article explores five primary model archetypes that embrace value creation in a digitally-driven business environment.

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Designing Meaningful Products by Focusing on User Experience (UX)

Creating meaningful products is the goal of every product team. But how can you create products that not only beat competitors, but are truly meaningful to customers?

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Launchpad Opens Doors for Great Consumer Product Ideas

Launchpad is a collaborative product design and development hub that aids inventors, entrepreneurs and startups with resources like product design, legal support, office space, patent protection, or marketing guidance.

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Patently Obvious

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is a new law that could mean a speedier patent approval process.

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Using Growth Boards to Drive Intentional Innovation at Scale

Learn how growth boards can provide consistent, sustainable, and transparent decision-making to support internal startups from ideas to scaled products and services.

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What are the Elements of User Experience?

UX Design is crucial for website success, and understanding the interconnected elements of user experience is essential for improving it.

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What Is a Venture Builder & Why Is Such a Hot Trend? | Corporate Lab

Venture building is a hot trend in innovation management. Venture builders create new companies using their own ideas and resources, which can save time and resources and allow large corporations to diversify their business options.

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What is Empathy Mapping and How Do You Use It?

Empathy mapping helps product and service providers understand the needs and feelings of their customers. The mapping tool helps businesses map out what their customers are saying, thinking, doing, and feeling.

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How this guy makes a living by stealing other people's ideas

Learn about the challenge innovators face in protecting their ideas, and how a copycat beat successful Kickstarter campaign Fidget Cube to market.

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Lean Scaleup: Set Your Corporate Ventures Up For Success

Corporate innovators must take specific actions, including adapting to budget cuts and identifying new opportunities, before implementing the Lean Scaleup framework to accelerate and scale chosen corporate startups and ventures.

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Seeding Startups for Self-Disruption: Stories of Ford, P&G and Audi

Companies serious about their future have started building new ventures to successfully innovate. Innovators from Ford, P&G, and Audi share their insights for creating successful ventures.

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Flirting with ideas

User innovation and adaptation can lead to groundbreaking ideas. Case studies such as the invention of the folding umbrella and the creation of rear view mirrors for planes demonstrate the value of tapping into user frustration and experimentation.

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The Venture Studio Business Model, Explained  | Corporate Lab

Venture studios are becoming popular in the business world, as they rapidly build and develop new companies. They use their resources and expertise to create startups, from identifying opportunities to scaling the business. They earn equity or payment for their services in return.

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Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups At The Innovation Game

Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups At The Innovation Game

Corporate Explorers are beating startups at their own game by building successful new ventures inside large corporations. They leverage core assets, challenge themselves in ideation and incubation, and build social support for change.

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Corporate Venture Building: The Process

Corporate Venture Building: The Process

Corporate venture building is gaining traction as a better path to innovation and growth compared to M&A. But building new businesses is difficult. Experts share key components of the corporate venture building process.

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The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

A step-by-step guide that will get you solving problems like a designer. By IDEO.org

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Lunar - McKinsey Design

Lunar - McKinsey Design

A design-focused innovation consultancy, LUNAR’s broad array of skills serve their clients all the way through the development process.

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