Category Archives: corporate entrepreneurship

corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, pitching

Pitching Masterclass @ Reifenhäuser

Recently I was honored and excited to be invited back to Reifenhäuser.

We’ve worked together on some interesting digital innovation projects (under NDA) in the past and it’s always a great pleasure to work with their talented people.

This time, they arranged for my “Pitching Masterclass, Corporate Edition” to be held for the participants of their internal “summer school” program.

The “Pitching Masterclass Corporate Edition” teaches employees how to get internal buy-in from the necessary stakeholder for their innovative ideas to generate additional or new business for their company.

It also teaches how to better understand their stakeholders, how and why pitching inside a company is very different from pitching investors as a startup – and provides a framework (taught at Harvard Business School) for navigating and overcoming potential internal resistance.

The “Corporate Edition” also provides an additional alternative framework and pitching format (used successfully in a very large and infamous company) to the classic pitch deck.

If your company or organisation would be interested in improving communication between your decision makers and idea people to massively improve innovation outcomes and increase employee job satisfaction – please feel free to get in touch to talk about how I can help you too.

If you’re at an educational institution like a college or university, a startup support program like an incubator or accelerator, or an event featuring startup pitches – get in touch to talk about how I can help you too with the “Startup Edition” of the Pitching Masterclass to help manage the quality of output and massively improve the fundability of your participants.

The Pitching Masterclass was initially created to serve the needs of the Rheinland Pitch 11 years ago to help educate our regional founders – and has been constantly evolving ever since, and today it contains accumulated knowledge and feedback from over 3.000 startups served.

Until now, the Pitching Masterclass Startup Edition and Corporate Edition was only available to applicants to the Rheinland Pitch or startups lucky enough to be in an incubator or accelerator or corporate innovation program who decided to book me for my in-person, on-location Masterclass.

Today, the Pitching Masterclass is also additionally available, both the Startup and Corporate Edition, to all startups and corporate innovators everywhere as on-demand eLearning at https://pitchingmasterclass.com, featuring +2 hours of video and all the hundreds of slides as a booklet download – also bookable in packages which additionally includes online mentoring & support vouchers for your teams.

Some of my other happy Pitching Masterclass (Startup & Corporate Edition) customers
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corporate entrepreneurship, Education, entrepreneurship, innovation, speaking

Lean Innovation Masterclass @ “Innovation Valley Garzweiler” Kickoff

Honored to be invited to hold my “Lean Innovation Masterclass” teaser workshop at the “Innovation Valley Garzweiler“ kick-off event in the amazing Hugo Junkers Hangar in Mönchengladbach last week.

As you might know, Germany has decided to end using brown coal as an energy source – and that even faster than initially planned: 2030 instead of 2038 – and this will obviously have an effect, especially in the regions where they are depending on the coal, for cheap electricity to industry, a major source of employment, stability, and prosperity.

To help alleviate the transitional pain, public funds have been made available and regional projects have been formed to support the affected regions in many different ways.

One way is to support and stimulate innovation, to enable an environment that can facilitate the creation of new exciting opportunities for the industries of the future – a second industrial revolution if you will — for when the coal that powered the first industrial revolution and has been generating unprecedented prosperity (and unprecedented damage to the planet) comes to an end.

That’s where I and my company +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES come in; I was there to give a teaser overview of some of the methodologies anyone can use (startups as well as established industry) to create disruptive innovation at 50 (!) times faster (and with less resources) than previous methods – to inspire and also to showcase what is indeed possible today; what is actually actionable and teachable.

Special thanks to WFMG – Wirtschaftsförderung Mönchengladbach, Zenit GmbH, and Zweckverband LANDFOLGE Garzweiler for inviting me and to all of the very enthusiastic and motivated participants that came to my fully-booked workshops.

Looking forward to be of further service to the region going forwards!

(And yes, that is an actual original Junkers Ju 52 airplane inside the event location – Hugo Junkers was born in Rheydt in today’s Mönchengladbach.)

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corporate entrepreneurship, Education, speaking

Back helping corporate innovation ventures @ Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp 2020 in Berlin

Excited and honored to be invited back for the FIFTH year in a row to support Bertelsmann University at the Creativity Bootcamp in Berlin!

The Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp is a three day event that brings together employees from around the world that have great creative business ideas to work on them and present.

What I do is that I help them get ready to pitch management for buy-in with my Pitching Masterclass and by coaching the individual teams through the process of taking an idea into a plausible solution and business proposition.

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corporate entrepreneurship, speaking, startup

Keynote: Do Startups & Corporations mix @ Zentis

Keynote @ Zentis “Startup-Market”, 30. August 2022

Excited and honored to have been invited to Zentis‘ “Startup-Market” event to keynote on the topic of startups and corporations – do they mix? Spoiler: It depends…

That guy…

As it wasn’t a public event, I can’t share the slides – but if you’re a corporate tasked with cooperating with startups, I can give you these helpful actionable excerpts:

Where is Corporate Startup Engagement positioned compared to R&D and M&A
The types of Corporate Startup Engagement and how they align with Corporate Objectives

Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Involvement

Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Costs
Types of Engagement ranked Low to High Risk

Types of Engagement ranked Short to Long Term Strategy

The typical evolution of the Startup Engagement phases

Are you working in a company looking to engage with startups and could use some help? Let’s talk!

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