10 moves to innovate like a start-upLean start-up in practice for corporates

#1 Don`t laugh at start-ups they might eat you for breakfast in near future.

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#2 Appoint a start-up knight

He / she is the first point of contact for ANY start-up inquiry in your organisation.

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#3 Be open

… and invite at least one start-up per month to pitch.

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#4 Use the business model canvas

… and burn your business plans.

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#5 Talk to your customers

Leave your corporate ivory tower, talk and LISTEN to your customers.

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#6 Data driven decisions

Focus on a few KPI`s and start working with the data instead of just collecting it.

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#7 Share your knowledge

… among colleagues and co-workers.

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#8 Build small teams

Give them full responsibility, time and resources to work on new opportunities.

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#9 Join co-working spaces Allow your teams to experience totally different

working environments.

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#10 Play little bets

Experiment on lot of ideas placing little bets to validate them instead of going all in with a medium hand.

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About me

# Focus on technology / digital media / online / mobile

# Education: business degrees from University of Cologne and University of St. Gallen (“Managing growth in technology firms”)

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Andreas Diehl 41, 202, 198 !# entrepreneur # father # husband

# Mission: bringing start-up techniques, tools and tactics to mature organisations and corporate environments

# Background: start-up entrepreneur having founded four own start-ups the past 14 years

Andreas Diehl www.firstangel.co !http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasdiehl https://www.xing.com/profile/Andreas_Diehl