Category archive: Startup
Creative Problem-Solving Strategies to Test Your Business Idea
Truly innovative small businesses and startups create a bold vision of a future that doesn’t exist yet, solving problems that customers don’t even know they have. But they don’t pull that vision out of thin air — many inventive companies use a strategy called design thinking. “Design thinking is a problem-solving approach,” says Jeanne Liedtka, a design and innovation…
10 Tools That Simplify Startup Collaboration
Producteev for Productive Collaboration “I highly recommend cross-platform toolProducteev for collaboration. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, and fantastic for team members who are working on many projects at the same time with others. There is space to comment on projects to maximize productive collaboration, and it’s all about getting tasks done.” – Doreen Bloch |…
10 Questions to Ask if You Want to Create a Winning Business Plan
The stodgy business plan—that multipage printed document that entrepreneurs used to hand out at meetings with venture capitalists—has gone the way of the typewriter and Rolodex. These days, entrepreneurs are expected to lay out their strategies in slick Power Point presentations, complete with colorful pictures and informative charts. But while it’s true that the format…
Gamifying Your Pitch to Raise Big Money, by Christoph Sollich
Inside FI gives you exclusive access inside the training sessions of the Founder Institute. To get updates when we release new videos, follow us onTwitter or subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Play to win! (Or pitch to win in this case). In this entertaining talk from the Berlin Founder Institute, Christoph Sollich gamifies pitching to raise capital, and…