The startup activity in Southeast Asia is currently booming with deals on track to hit record numbers in 2017. Over 500 deals are expected by the end of this year, following an impressive 2016 that resulted in 347 deals.
Many organisations stifle the very innovation that they seek through ingrained habits that block creativity and risk-taking. Here are 10 habits that choke disruption and kill innovation.
The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.
Here are 10 products that would not have seen the light of day, had it not been the result of multiples failures, human error or serendipity.
Our top ten podcasts on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship.
In just the last two years, millions of dollars from corporates and government have been committed to numerous accelerator programs. Here is a list of the top ten corporate accelerator and incubator programs in Singapore, which combine both deep domain and startup building expertise.
Overnight successes are usually anything but. In most cases, what appears to be a sudden rise to prominence is often the the manifestation of years of frustration, trial and error and time spent honing one’s craft.
Large organisations are engaging startups in growing numbers, due in part to a realisation that companies have not been built to respond to the accelerating pace of change in a timely manner, and that short of restructuring the entire organisation from the ground up, partnering with startups who are unencumbered by bureaucracy, short-term shareholder demands and employee incentives, is an easier way to tap into emerging technologies, business models and talent.
Corporate startup partnerships represent a massive clash of cultures. There are countless platforms that corporates can leverage to connect with startups such as Crunchbase, Angelist, Startup List and Gust. Add to this meet-ups, pitch nights, conferences, blogs and social media all making it easier than ever to identify and connect with startups doing compelling things in your industry or adjacent industries. What’s really lacking is a roadmap on how to work with startups.
When it comes to corporate innovation programs there’s a number of different structures that large organisations can adopt, however knowing which one to adopt can be a challenge, and oftentimes executives find themselves chasing after shiny metal objectives such as innovation labs where strategic alignment can often become an afterthought.
When it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, a number of core qualities or attributes are fundamental to success, which are best encapsulated by the following four Ps.
Here's our list of 20 best books on innovation. These are essential reads are relevant for innovation management, creativity and entrepreneurship for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
URWork, one of Asia's largest co-working space operators with a valuation of more than US$1B, is set to open its first operation out of China in Singapore.
There are countless tools we use with clients to build fast, learn fast and measure fast in order to determine what will ‘wow’ customers enough to extend or generate new lines of revenue and remain a competitive force well into the future.
Lawrence Levy was CFO of Pixar from Toy Story through to Monsters Inc. Uncover 10 key insights on corporate innovation and culture change.
The story of a 3M researcher, $99 purchase orders and a $60B empire.
About six months ago I made the decision to leave a successful management consulting career to follow my startup dreams.
The role that Government should play in fostering entrepreneurship.
Why your ideation tools aren’t working and how to bring ideas back to life. In this article, we cover the definition of the ideation process steps, followed by recommended approach, examples and techniques. This is essential for the execution of design thinking.
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Startup Bootcamp’s Fintech Demo Day in London.
The Mills Oakley Accelerator has been established to commercialise legaltech.
Gary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup focused on helping job-hunters & career changers, inspired by the best-selling career book of all time, “What Color Is Your Parachute?”
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework.
Mills Oakley is launching Asia-Pacific's first Legal Startup accelerator.
Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.
The team at Lemonade Stand are proud to announce that we have successfully secured $100,000 as part of LaunchVic's $6.5m first round of funding allocations.
In milestone episode #50, I speak to Chris Kutarna, a two-time Governor General's Medallist, a Sauvé Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar, and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford.
This Fast Fix Friday is all about your ego and why you should kill it!
Max Kelly is currently Managing Director of Techstars London.
This Fast Fix Friday covers off on all of the different books, podcasts and other resources that have made me and can make you a better professional and person in general.
This blog is about your ego, and why you should kill it.
Our podcast has just turned 50! To celebrate, we've listed out 50 of the most important and memorable lessons about innovation.
This (Not So) Fast Fix Friday focuses on some of my favourite productivity hacks, 16 of them in fact!
Half of the S&P500 will be replaced over the next 10 years at current rates of churn. 187 companies in the list today first entered it in the past 10 years alone