It's Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level
Steve Blank proposes the investment readiness level, a way for investors to judge startups at demo days on evidence rather than on demos, slides and teams: week after week, teams show what they tested outside the building with the business model canvas and customer development, and what they learned.
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.