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Why Corporations Are Turning to Digital Accelerators For Leadership & InnovationNUS-ISS Digital Leadership & Innovation Conference 20 November 2015
Hugh Mason, CEO, JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd [email protected] http://jfdi.asia
JFDI.Asia URL: jfdi.asia Blk71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #05-16
Coming Up
Introducing JFDI1. The Startups Are Coming2. Making Sense of The New Reality3. So How?
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Introducing JFDI
● Founded in 2010 by Hugh Mason (49, PR)and Wong Meng Weng (39, Citizen)
● First ASEAN startup accelerator, backedby IIPL, Fenox VC, Family Offices, HNWI’s
● Attracted over 2,000 startup teamsfrom 80+ countries. Supported 250 teamsvia MOOC at pre-accelerator stage,
● USD2m pre-seed capital deployed into69 startups, >50% raised median USD550k
● Over 300 jobs created, >50% of which arein Singapore and >50% filled by SCPRs. JFDI’s own staff of 16 split Singapore-Philippines.
● No exits yet but 48% IRR (unrealized). However initial equity-only model limits value capture and time to realize value is too long for operational sustainability.
● Now raising capital to a) build on learning, b) pivot to new model yielding fees + equity + options through co-creation with industry partners and c) reduce costs by offshoring.
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JFDI Clients, Investors & Partners
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1The Startups Are Coming
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OMG Startups Can!!!!
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All Hype?
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Leaders Grieving for a Golden Age?
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Heroes to Zeroes?
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Schadenfreude
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Something Has Broken
Short Term: How to keep telling an innovative story to the analysts when the numbers are flatlining?Mid Term: How to start shaping, acquiring or getting in on innovation at a reasonable price?Long Term: How to avoid getting disrupted, change culture to a future orientation and stay relevant?
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Corporations Are Fading, Faster Than Ever
Average lifespan has decreased from 61 years in 1958 to 18 years today
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Financial Services are Unbundling
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Healthcare Too
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Healthcare Too
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The Startups Are Coming
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Unbundling Hits Products Too
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The New Reality
Founded: 1916
Market Cap Today: $99.37B
Culture: Minimise Risk
Innovation Style: Incremental
Founded: 2003
Market Cap Today: $28.95B
Culture: Maximise Opportunity
Innovation Style: Disruptive
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“After This, There is no Turning Back”
"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland,
and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
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2Making Sense
of The New Reality
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“A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”- Steve Blank
“A fixed-term, cohort-based program, including mentorship and educational components, that culminates in a public pitch event or demo-day”- Susan Cohen
Some Definitions
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Trend 1: It’s Cheap to Try Out Tech Ideas
Cost to launch a Tech Startup Source: Upfront Ventures
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Trend 2: There’s a New “Science of Startups”
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JFDIDiscover
JFDIValidate
JFDIAccelerate
Individuals
Teams
Problem Statement
Minimum Viable
Prototype
Traction
Seed Stage Startup
Series AStage SME
Startup Weekends, Hackathons
Product Development
Customer Discovery
Growth Hacking
Demo Day
Trend 2: There’s a New “Science of Startups”
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1. Discover 2. Validate 3. Accelerate
Trend 2: There’s a New “Science of Startups”
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Trend 3: We Can Accelerate Success & Failure
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Trend 4: New Mindset● Design Thinking● Lean Startup● Agile Methods● Launch and Learn v Plan
and Perfect
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Trend 5: Tech2Market or Market2Tech?M
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Technology Risk - Could it be done?LOW HIGH
HIGH
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Trend 5: Tech2Market or Market2Tech?M
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Technology Risk - Could it be done?LOW HIGH
HIGH
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Trend 5: Tech2Market or Market2Tech?M
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Technology Risk - Could it be done?LOW HIGH
HIGH
“Teams that … took the Lean Launchpad class ... had a 60% success rate”(Blank 2013)
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3So How?
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In Five Years It Will Probably Seem Obvious
Conceptualization Iteration Implementation
StartupsAgile, Nimble, Fail Fast
CorporationsScale, Leverage, Distribution, Can’t Fail
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1. Denial
2. Arousal
3. Infatuation
4. Over - Confidence
6. Acceptance
“What’s a startup?”
“My CEO read about startups in Forbes.”
“We should set up a fund.”“People will give us valuable IP for nothing!”
“Let’s sponsor a hackathon!”“This is so much more fun than work.”“Look, analysts ... shiny things!”
“This looks easy. Let’s do it in-house.”“Our middle managers can all be mentors.”“Order more post-its and disruptive T-shirts!”“You can be an ‘intrapreneur’ too!”
“Until it makes $50m it doesn’t move my needle.”“The operating units aren’t interested.”“This all needs tightening up. Bring in PwC.”
“We have a role and startups have theirs.”“We need a mature engagement model.”“Maybe we don’t need to dominate this process.”
5. Disappointment
Six Stages of Innovation Awakening
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Corporate Innovation Starting Points
JFDI Delivers
● New Product & Service Startup Businesses
● Capital growth
● Pre-emptive investment rights
● Early access to a diverse portfolio
● A more innovative company culture
● Brand affiliation with innovation
● Innovative talent identified / acquired
● Deeper staff, client channel engagement
JFDI Solutions
● Themed accelerators
● Venture building
● Venture scouting
● Fast follower labs
● Mentoring
● Sponsorship
● Innovation events
● Innovation showcase
● Co-locating staff & startups
● Collaborative Innovation events
● Innovative client experiences
Problem: How to ...
● Get Access to Digital Investment options?
● Outsource innovation to generate new kinds of value?
● Inspire internal innovation?
● Do Professional Staff Development?
● Demonstrate an innovative culture?
● Farm speculative investments?
● Expand scope of products & services?
● Pay it forward?
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Execution is All
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“Start with the end in mind” - Steven Covey
● Customer - SupplierCorporate sources products or services from a startup to enable efficiency or to extend functionality of its own processes, products and services
● Distribution PartnershipCorporate leverages its partners and networks to offer distribution to a startup for its products and services
● Development PartnershipCorporate and the startup co-operate to execute R&D
● Joint VentureCorporate and the startup develop a new project together based on the expertise and interests of both parties
● Direct InvestmentCorporate takes shares in a startup still under development
Many Possible Ways To Co-Create Value
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Model 1: The Skunkworks
● Lockheed Martin, 3M, Intel, AWS
● Waterfall style- slow to market
● Not conducive to disruptive innovation
● Insufficient for unpredictable market shifts and competition
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Model 2: Inspiring Intrapreneurship
● Aims to commercialize employee ideas● Widely publicized to boost employee
morale and promote innovation● Waterfall style- slow to market● Tend to be driven by existing business
units rather than disruptive innovation● Internal politics may be an issue● Qualcomm Venture Fest ● Employees didn’t know how to move
projects forward
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Model 3: Internal Innovation Labs
● “Start-up style” for salaried employees
● Not equipped to scale their successes
● Mercy at the quarterly budgets● Budgetary and political pressure
for promising projects● Xero PARC
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Model 4: Hackathons
● Events● Morale-booster● Short term● No real products
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Model 5: Innovation Colonies
● Corporate accelerators● Separate locations● Lean (small) budgets● Fast to ship● Market Valuation● Skin in the game
(equity)
Source: Lean Enterprise by Trevor Owen
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Model 6: Co-Creation
Theme Selection Session
Discovering Problem
Statements
Ideation Workshop
with PartnersAcceleration
Definition of targets
Technological domains aligned with Sponsor focus areas
Validation
1 day 1 month 2 months2 x Workshops 3 months or more
Identification of 25 problem / market needs statements by JFDI
Problem statements are field of ideation and will be agreed with Sponsor
Ideation between Sponsor, JFDI and further partners
Workshop is facilitated by JFDI
Partners to participate are agreed with Sponsor
Sponsor represents about 20% of participants
Participants will sign in with resources for market validation
Validation focuses on market and technical hypothesis critical for success
Participants to sign in with resources for the acceleration phase
Validated ideas will be selected for acceleration
Lead
IP N/A N/A Held in Escrow by JFDI Held in Escrow by JFDI Assigned by JFDI to Participants
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JFDI’s Response
JFDI doesn’t just deliver PowerPoints and concept prototypes. In two quarters we source or create, validate and accelerate new businesses, complete with paying
customers. As investors ourselves, we aim to create companies that will generate
value repeatably, profitably and scalably.
Time to market Hands-on execution
Shared financial and market risks In Asia for Asia
JFDI was created in Asia for Asia. We and
our partners understand the
culture, challenges and opportunities
unique to our region.
JFDI shares risk and reward and aligns with
clients’ long-term interests through co-
investment.The aim: Asia scale
USD250m+ exits
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