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Peter Jegede: Stay curious and get comfortable with ambiguity
"Stay curious and get comfortable with ambiguity"Lead Product Manager Peter Jegede shares about the daily life and challenges while building Ventures, how to stay curious and what the business might look like in 3 years. What are you doing...
Assess your innovation strategy with Stryber’s easy-to-use tool
Take your innovation strategy to the next level At Stryber, we have built a unique survey for you to assess your innovation processes and take actionable steps to improve your innovation capabilities now.Get actionable insights in 10 minutesCompare...
The danger of economic disruption in Germany
"Watch out, Germany, disruption is coming." While numerous companies in America are experiencing highs, things are going downhill in Germany, even before the pandemic: Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof files for insolvency, the DAX company Continental...
Christina Sier: Finding the best talent is definitely not a gut feeling
"Finding the best talent is definitely not a gut feeling"Christina is the Lead Talent Acquisition Manager at Stryber and joined the company in October 2018. Together with the talent team, she managed the growth from about 20 to over 100 people...
The disruption of Insurance is already happening. It’s time to stop pretending that it’s not.
If there's one thing that's certain in life, it's that we cannot predict the future very well. New market trends, change in customer behaviour & expectations, and new technologies unfold rapidly; thus creating a new unique environment for...
Thais Souza: The heart of UX is empathy
"The heart of UX is empathy" Thais is Head of Design at Stryber. In this interview, she gives some insights about the importance of creativity in a data-driven world. She also explains Stryber's new open source design system which was launched a...
Matthieu Van Haperen: A venture is like your baby
“A venture is like your baby, and keeping cool about it is a challenge” Matthieu van Haperen is Venture Architect at Stryber. He has worked on projects in proptech, fintech and healthcare. He gave some fruitful insights about life as a Venture...
Introducing the Matterhorn Design System
Open-sourced, Inclusive, Intuitive, and Powerful The Stryber Design Team is pleased to announce that our new home for Matterhorn Design System is now live at matterhorn.stryber.com Every digital business faces a significant challenge when they...
Christin Kubitza: You need to be data driven
“You need to be data driven. Only then can you truly understand the customer” Christin joined Stryber in August 2019 and is working as a Growth Marketer. She gives some insights about the daily challenges of working in a founding team and the...
Does PropTech impact the property management environment?
In our recent insights posts, we gave an overview of the PropTech startups disrupting the German real estate market and dug into the segments Design & Build and Finance & Invest. Today we will dig deeper into the developments within the...
Will Cultured Meat and Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Food System?
Challenges of the meat industryThe global meat industry (currently worth approx. EUR 1 trillion) is at a tipping point driven by 3 global challenges: Supplying enough meat to feed an estimated 10 billion people by 2050. The global meat industry is...
VC Funding of the Finance & Investor Sector in PropTech – A German Overview
In the latest blogpost of our insight series on the real estate industry in Germany we took a closer look at the category Design & Build. In this article, we will elaborate on the category Finance & Invest within the real estate industry,...
Real Estate Innovation in Germany: Startups Digitizing the Construction Industry
Recent Developments in Designing & Building Real Estate - An OverviewWe recently kicked off a new insights series with a focus on the real estate industry in Germany. With new startups continually entering the market, the entire industry is in...
Response to Capital Study on Corporate Innovation in 2020
As the leading independent corporate venture builder in DACH, Stryber is at the forefront of driving the latest thinking on corporate innovation in Europe. We appreciate contributions that shape that thinking from all sides and were happy to see...
How PropTech is Disrupting the German Real Estate Market in 2020
Times of Crisis: An Opportunity For Disruption and DigitizationIf you were to look at the German real estate industry last year by reading the news clippings, you would probably think that there wasn't much to worry about. The biggest concerns were...
The Future of Food – Innovative Foodtech Startups Creating A More Sustainable Food System
The Future of Food in "Growing & Producing"- An Industry Itching to ShiftLarge companies need new disruptive business models in order to grow stronger - or grow at all. We discussed that in our last article on our digitization framework. With...
Digitization Framework 2020: Achieving Higher Efficiency and Growth
“Digitization” seems to be the buzzword of our time to unlock just about any business conversation, it’s literally omnipresent. And yet there is no established definition. Are you using this word correctly? Or are you simply wanting to jump on the...
D2C: Why Food & Beverage Giants Need To Turn To This Model Before It Is Too Late
The Race to Direct-To-Consumer (D2C) within Retail and CPG Brands (also known as Business-To-Consumer)E-commerce has shaped the retail experience, but one of the most dramatic changes has been the rise of D2C models, often referred to as “The...
Monthly Stryber Startup Watchlist August
A monthly series highlighting exciting Seed and Series A companies that have announced or raised their latest funding round in the last month and why I believe those ventures are worth to watch in the future. To not miss any update in the future,...
Monthly Stryber Startup Watchlist June
A monthly series highlighting exciting Seed and Series A companies that have announced or raised their latest funding round in the last month and why I believe those ventures are worth to watch in the future. To not miss any update in the future,...
Startup failure in Europe – Indepth Analysis
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...
How company builders can help founders to get their startup off the ground
Most startups fail and we also have a good understanding of the main reasons, for that I like to refer to the famous TED talk from Bill Gross highlighting the top 5 success factors for startups: At Stryber we receive many applications for founder...
Monthly Stryber Startup Watchlist April
A monthly newsletter highlighting exciting Seed and Series A companies that have announced or raised their latest funding round in the last month and why I believe those ventures are worth to watch in the future. Subscribe to our...
Why you need to start with your company culture
I recently read a book — Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by journalist John Carreyrou. The book covers the rise and fall of the firm Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup headed by Elizabeth Holmes. In the book I...
Greenfield Product Management: Fantasy vs. Reality
Your inbox is overflowing with feature requests from every corner of your organization, the product enhancements you’ve committed to for the quarter are hopelessly behind schedule, and your development team is struggling with simple changes due to the complexity of your legacy product. Sound familiar?
Product Hiring: Finding the Person behind the Skillset
Wait, yet another article on hiring Product people? While there are admittedly a bevy of articles out there on how to hire good POs and what qualities to look for (or not to look for), the reality of product management life at a venture portfolio builder like Stryber means that the qualities that we look for end up being slightly different from other companies.
How to conduct efficient product discovery when building MVPs
Product discovery may be the most critical step in your product development process, and it might be even more important when building MVPs. Simply put, find the right thing to build and you’re definitely on the right track. But define the wrong...
4 invaluable skills for product owners to build successful MVPs
As company builder we launch a diverse range of digital products from scratch, such as online shops, B2B FinTech platforms, or digital health apps.
I turned my grooming session into a workshop
Note to self: Don’t buy post-its that need thumbtacks to stick to the wall.Here’s how it went. For me, one of the most impactful topics of 2019 in tech had nothing to do with AI, Machine Learning, AR/VR, or IOT. It was something that really should...
5 Ways to Avoid Office Politics
Everyone who has ever worked in an office knows the dynamics that develop when the actual work is sabotaged by the interests and personal career goals of individuals or peer groups. Internal office politics arise when people start putting their own...
The room where it happens
How (and why) to democratize decision making in your dev team.If the musical Hamilton is to be believed, there were only 3 men in the room when the decision about where the federal capital and national bank for the fledgling United States would be...
A Product Manager is a coach
Software development insights from the world of sports.Numerous attempts have been made at comparing the Product Manager role to jobs in more established industries. I’ve heard ‘architect’, I’ve heard ‘chef’, and (of course) ‘project manager’. I...
The case against Corporate Venture Capital
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...
The great myths of corporate innovation
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...
Why heavily invest in corporate innovation in a recession?
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...
Navigating Corporate Innovation
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...
Stryber Rebranding Insights
A logo is more than a graphic representation of your company because it connects people’s minds to the business. That’s why we believe our logo has to speak for us. It represents who we are and the things we believe in. That is why work in...
Why Thomas Cook failed (the Digital Transformation)
At 2:00 a.m. on Monday the 23rd of September, our 178 year old employer, travel advisor, hotelier, airliner and frenemy -Thomas Cook- passed away after 20 years of terminal illness. Here is why.The name of the illness: DisruptionI really think that...
Why Kuoni failed (the digital transformation)
Due to high demand I created a keynote speech based on this story. Read more at the end of this page. The ultimate confession of failureOn the 5th of November 2015 the Kuoni group announced that it would lay off 350 people and also replace CEO...
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