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2018: Thank you for an amazing journey
2018 had been a really exciting year for us: We have launched the Market Opportunity Navigator- a framework to help founders and managers choose a promising strategic focus, and the accompanying book 'Where to Play'. It was a year packed with excitements, creations...
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Structured processes for creative discoveries – an oxymoron?
I just came back from teaching the Market Opportunity Navigator at the Technology University in Munich, where I had a very interesting discussion with my students: does a structured process inhibit or enhance creative discovery of business opportunities? Coming from a...
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5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations
Before you 'get out of the building': How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup, by Steve Blank and Eric Ries, is a great bottom-up approach. Through local experimentations, you can gradually reveal a promising...
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Success story: how startup Augury determined its market opportunities
The tale of an Industrial IoT startup discovering a new strategic business tool. Augury is bringing predictive maintenance technology to new markets. The technology combines two key shifts in the industry: artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. The...
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