David is probably best known as the co-author of Testing Business Ideas which he co-authored with Alexander Osterwalder. However, he’s had an incredible impact on innovation both at startups and large companies. He helped GE develop their...
There may be no more important topic in 2021 to innovation leaders than how to think about managing and organizing your team. On this week’s episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Stefano Mastrogiacomo to talk about his new book High-Impact...
How do you truly operationalize a mandate to become more innovative? There are plenty of resources that talk about the importance of innovation, but over the year’s I’ve really grown to appreciate author & innovation consultant...
Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder are world famous entrepreneurs and authors whose work in many ways launched the Lean Startup movement. We had a great conversation at CSL’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum. We are in the process of...
Joseph’s papers have been some of the most interesting academic research on corporate venture capital in recent years. We do (eventually) get to this at the second half of the podcast, but honestly I could have talked to him for hours and kept...
When you think about “academic thought leadership” in entrepreneurship, Yale Hochberg is at the top of most lists. For me, as a VC, she is best known for her work on the Seed Accelerator Rankings. But as you’ll hear on this...
One of the thing’s I’ve observed over and over again from the best corporate innovation leaders is how data can be fuel for their innovation programs. On this episode of Agile Giants, I bring on a true academic thought leader on this...
Episode 27: Song Ma — Assistant Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management We are continuing our conversation for another week on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). This time returning to academia and having a conversation with Professor...
Professor Josh Lerner is an academic giant. His 2013 article in HBR on Corporate Venturing is constantly being referenced in conversations as companies explore setting up their own Corporate Venture Capital group. He also has written a number of...
Episode 23: Dave Knox Author — Predicting the Turn Dave & I have known each other for a long time. We first got to know each other through his involvement helping lead a Cincinnatti based startup accelerator, The Brandery. More recently...