A Simple Exercise to Start the Process — Hundreds of years ago, the first seafarers braved the open ocean using only their eyes and the stars. They tracked the movement of stars across the night sky and knew by heart the positions of constellations during every season. Their deep knowledge of celestial bodies allowed these ancient mariners to…

Know the Opportunities and Obstacles — Startups, scale-ups, large corporations and enterprises alike want to take advantage of the benefits that come with international expansion. Customer base growth, greater scale and efficiency creation, talent accessibility, portfolio diversification, and M&A are just a few examples. Although it may be difficult, expanding your company into a new market…

Southeast Asia, with a digitally aware consumer base and a fast-growing economy, should be on your list of potential international markets. Here are the best strategies to enter the region. Businesses are increasingly flocking to Southeast Asia because of the high potential return on investment. …

Know the Opportunities and Obstacles — Published Q4 2022 When Tesla filed in May 2022 to officially enter Thailand with its vehicles, battery products, and energy storage systems, this wasn’t surprising news. Of course, this isn’t to say blindly follow where Tesla is going. It just shouldn’t have to take a splash from this big fish…

What we assumed only had the ramifications of the common flu actually brought world economies into a recession. Clientele delayed projects, suffocated the scope, or cancelled them full stop. High-value engagements that were usually held in-person were now reserved for “recovery” and “recalibration in the new normal.” …

On GE, Failures, and Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight — If there was a Hype Cycle for all these methodologies and theories, you would find LS is sliding down the far end of the slope. Steve Blank addressed the topic of the Lean Startup being dead in his September 2018 blog post. If you’re crunched for time, here’s his conclusion: …

I. Introduction II. Brief History III. A Deep Dive into the Horizons 1. Apply the 70/20/10 Rule 2. Define Your Innovation Frontier (IF) 3. Go Beyond the Technology and Think Capability 4. Hold Independent Innovation Tournaments, Bounties, and Hackathons for Each Horizon 5. Plot Your Current Portfolio of Products and…

My nonprofit, military, academia, and defense accelerator colleagues might’ve discovered a peculiar talk in their social feeds titled Design Thinking is Bullshit by Pentagram partner Natasha Jen. If you are a casual observer or a heavy headline-reader of mainstream business journalism and tech tabloids, this might appear newsworthy. But if…

And the few places that only the brave can know — I remember the jump. Do you? The sun was like a massive ember. Beneath you was a rippling sea of orange and yellow. You exploded forward with speed and aggression knowing that this mirrored the fire within that was only beginning to burn. …