First Round Review interview with Madhavan Ramanujam, pricing partner at Simon-Kucher: design the product around what customers value and are willing to pay, instead of setting the price at the end. His example is the Porsche Cayenne, an SUV built around what customers wanted and would pay for, which ended up bringing in half of Porsche's profit.
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.