French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
Companies are not waiting to be disrupted by startups, leading to the push of corporate innovation. 68 of the world’s largest companies on the Forbes Global 500 List have interacted with startups with in the form of hackathons, accelerators, partnerships and venture funds. Our analysis of a dozen recent initiatives, including The Coca-Cola Founders accelerator, GE Garages events and Swire Properties’ coworking…
Silicon Valley no longer has the monopoly on tech innovation: startups are emerging all over the world with new ideas and technologies, diversifying innovative power to various ecosystems worldwide. Asia in particular is boiling hot and setting new trends. Just think of those two figures from 2016: China’s giant messaging app WeChat processed twice as…
In this new world of Unicorns, the closed (but growing) club of $1bn+ startups, it’s definitely a hard time to be a Dinosaur, as MNCs are often dubbed in comparison. They’re slow and take months, if not years, to go from the idea to the product, as R&D seems unfit to “fail fast” and iterate…
I’ve just finished “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” and wanted to share a few thoughts about this amazing book. A bit like Steve Jobs’s biography, you feel like walking alongside Amazon’s founder and get to know more how he works. Actually, the whole substance of the book is summarized right…
Last week’s Ideas Inc conference about startups (see the best projects here) was also an opportunity to make our brain discover new ideas. When I hear “design”, I think either of old-school engineering or hipsters making nice and useless drawings on InDesign. Two speeches by Teddy Zmrhal of IDEO, the design and innovation agency, and…