Beyond Innovation: How Corporations can Build and Launch Successful Startups

GenerationS has prepared one more #InnovTalk, this time with the amazing Dave Blakely, SVP of Education and Masterclasses at Mach49 and instructor at the Stanford d.school and UC Berkeley Engineering. Our #GENSInnovTalk will reveal how creating a new venture in a global business differs from a start-up and the greatest mothership barriers to launching a company. During our #InnovTalk we will discuss: 1) Stages of new venture creation - ideate, incubate, accelerate and scale; 2) Understanding customer needs, establishing product vision, confirming business viability, and managing the corporate mothership; 3) Cases of successful ventures created by corporations from every industry and in every region of the world. Mach49’s approach as the first growth incubator for global businesses. They offer their customers a detailed step-by-step approach for creating, developing and launching successful new ventures from within their own organization. Mach49 has helped clients create and launch dozens of new businesses across a range of industries. Mach49 clients include Shell, Prudential, Schneider Electric, Stanley Black & Decker, Pernod Ricard, Cargill, Airbus, Standard Bank and Metalsa.