by Alex Mahr | Apr 23, 2020 | Startup World
When you are involved in the startup world you might have heard someone claim that nine out of ten startups will fail. While the startup world always has agreed to this in general, there is no data to back this up. If you are a founder, an investor, a corporation or a...
by Alex Mahr | Dec 29, 2019 | Digital Transformation
Should Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) be one of the methods in your corporate innovation strategy? Let me start by giving my honest opinion right away: no. While I am not alone with this opinion — for instance, venture capitalists such as Fred Wilson are generally...
by Alex Mahr | Nov 15, 2019 | Corporate Company Building
Recently, I have written about ‘why’ your company should invest heavily in innovation, even in recession times. Now, the obvious next question is ‘how’. Let’s start with some lessons learned on ‘how not to’. In my career, I have seen some very persistent myths of...
by Alex Mahr | Nov 15, 2019 | Digital Transformation
It is really funny: in good times, executives don’t really see the need to innovate (“Why take risk? Everything is fine!”) and in bad times, they are too scared to touch what is left to pay out as dividends in order to keep the shareholders somewhat happy. This is not...
by Alex Mahr | Nov 15, 2019 | Corporate Company Building
As new business models hit more and more industries in an increasing pace, incumbents are challenged to respond. And they do respond. However, from an outsider’s point of view, this can often look a bit funny. Steve Blank, adjunct professor at Stanford, coined the...
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