Book description
The new playbook for innovation and startup success is emerging from beyond Silicon Valley--at the "frontier."
Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years.
For decades, the hot center of this phenomenon has been Silicon Valley. This is changing fast. Thanks to technology, startups are now taking root everywhere, from Delhi to Detroit to Nairobi to Sao Paulo. Yet despite this globalization of startup activity, our knowledge of how to build successful startups is still drawn primarily from Silicon Valley.
As venture capitalist Alexandre Lazarow shows in this insightful and instructive book, this Silicon Valley "gospel" is due for a refresh--and it comes from what he calls the "frontier," the growing constellation of startup ecosystems, outside of the Valley and other major economic centers, that now stretches across the globe. The frontier is a truly different world where startups often must cope with political or economic instability and lack of infrastructure, and where there might be little or no access to angel investors, venture capitalists, or experienced employee pools.
Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disruptors who change them because there are few existing businesses to disrupt. The companies they create must be global from birth because local markets are too small. They focus on resiliency and sustainability rather than unicorn-style growth at any cost.
With rich and wide-ranging stories of frontier innovators from around the world, Out-Innovate is the new playbook for innovation--wherever it has the potential to happen.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction: Beyond Silicon Valley
- 1. Create: Create Rather Than Disrupt
- 2. Foster the Full Stack: Don’t Just Rely Only on Software
- 3. Raise a Camel: Build for Sustainability and Resilience
- 4. Cross-Pollinate: Connect Ideas and Networks from around the World
- 5. Be Born Global: Target the World from Day One
- 6. Establish a Distributed Team: Tap Talent from across the Globe
- 7. Build A-Teams: Don’t Hire Just A-Players
- 8. Train to Be a Multi-Mission Athlete: Combine Impact and Profit-Based Goals
- 9. Manage Risk: Foster Trust: Don’t Just “Move Fast and Break Things”
- 10. Reinvent Finance: Develop New Venture Models for Tougher Ecosystems
- 11. Lay the Foundation: Support the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
- 12. It Takes a Village: How the Rest of Us Can Help
- Conclusion: The Future Is at the Frontier
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Out-Innovate
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2020
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633697591
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