George Deeb (Red Rocket Ventures) in Entrepreneur: to build a business of scale, a startup needs a « painkiller », a product that solves a big, urgent problem for which clients already have a budget, not a « vitamin » that is merely nice to have. Otherwise, expect low revenue and a pivot toward a bigger opportunity.
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.