Startup Program Design: A Practical Guide for Creating Accelerators and Incubators at Any Organization

OUTSOURCING THE PROGRAM

When you sit with the CEO, everything is all right, and you feel the permission to partner with startups. But when later you walk on the work floor of the business lines, you don’t feel surrounded by so many believers.

—Anonymous interviewee

It can be challenging to introduce a startup program in a large organization. The world of startups defies the logic of many corporate and government hierarchies.

You don’t need to do everything alone. There are plenty of innovation firms that are eager to help. They maintain proprietary databases and access to deal flow, are adept in design thinking and lean validation methodologies, ...