Corporate lean startup works when you prototype the constraint, not when you pretend you are a garage.
The longer take lives on the lean startup hub.
Mark Randall's December 2014 interview describes Kickbox as a red box, a prepaid card and six checklists an employee finishes before the company funds the idea.
In November 2006 Werner Vogels described Amazon's Working Backwards process: the press release and the FAQ come before implementation, including when the customer is inside the company.
His 2016 shareholder letter names four habits: obsess over the customer, doubt the proxy, take an obvious outside trend, and make reversible calls with about 70% of the information you wish you had.
Idea challenges, accelerators and incubators fill the calendar. Steve Blank's test is whether anything gets through the sales channel into a user's hands.
Acquired startup employees leave at twice the rate of similar hires, and a vesting schedule does not hold the people the buyer wanted.
Nearly 60% of executives are freezing or cutting innovation budgets while a third still expect a quarter of revenue from offerings that do not exist yet.
Rita McGrath's questions for a venture that already has approval, and a review that can stop a bet.
How an incumbent should answer a disruptive S curve when the new offer is still worse for the customers who already pay.
Steve Blank's account of process outranking product, and why hackathons do not replace the authority to ship.
Why the traditional business case breaks on uncertain bets, and a practical way to value innovation investment across the funnel.
How P&G, LEGO, Samsung and others opened the gates and let outsiders help invent what the inside team could not see alone.
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. How to run a problem interview that separates real pain from polite interest.
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