Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts
Nir Eyal, in TechCrunch (February 2012): the value of web businesses increasingly depends on the habits of their users. Early media companies sold attention; social networks won by engineering habits with triggers, variable rewards and social proof. Startups must become experts in behaviour design.
Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.
Short essays by email for people who launch new ventures inside large companies: testing ideas with customers, winning over leadership, using AI without the hype. Plus first invitations to Lead Innovation Day.