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Wired magazine offered an article on the state of things in startup-land and discovered, astonishingly, that “The Bad times are Coming for Startups…
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Dear colleagues: Just when you thought the world has learned the many lessons of discovery-driven planning, some huge, ambitious project gets shot down…
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Big, expensive unions of large and unwieldy companies almost never work out well. The sudden termination of CNN+ is but the latest casualty in a long…
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Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet…
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The announcement that after an expenditure of something like $300 million, CNN was going to pull its CNN+ streaming service after just a month in…
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The article “Discovery Driven Planning” was published in 1995. The book-length treatment came out in 2009. And yet, we’re only now catching up to what…
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Imposter syndrome – that sneaking feeling that you are not worthy – can be crippling. It is especially problematic for people who are not in the…
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Dear colleagues: The first quarter of 2022 was as momentous as any I have ever experienced. It was emotional to join my colleagues from the LvBS…
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OK, we have finally realized that innovation and transformation are not optional for the long run well-being of a large enterprise. But that is a far…
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With any corporate venturing program, one of the most important factors that will determine financial returns is the ability to stop investing in…
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With any corporate venturing program, one of the most important factors that will determine financial returns is the ability to stop investing in…
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My area isn’t geopolitics. I’ve been hesitating to opine about the horrible situation in Ukraine. It took a lot of people by surprise because Russia’s…
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