From Employee to Entrepreneur: Leading Your Team to Take Smart Innovation Risks

From Employee to…

Sean Ammirati @SeanAmmirati

Partner, Birchmere Ventures

Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

August 3, 2017

ENTREPRENEUR

ENTREPRENEURS CREATE THE WORLD THE WAY IT OUGHT

TO BE!

Now spend time convincing others to do the same

What got you here, won’t get you there!

Why?

Transportation

Creative Destruction

Creative Restoration

ENTREPRENEURS CREATE THE WORLD THE WAY IT OUGHT

TO BE!

Teach models focused on processes & best practices

Provide students opportunities to apply immediately

Expose them to different entrepreneurs case studies

How do you teach entrepreneurship?

Build

Learn Measure

1. Customer Discovery

A product solves a problem for an identifiable group of users

2. Customer Validation

The market is saleable & large enough that a viable

business might be built

3. Customer Creation

The business is scalable through a repeatable sales and

marketing roadmap

4. Company Building

Company departmental and operational processes

are created to scale

THE CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT MODEL

What about corporate entrepreneurship?

CorporateStartupLab.com

Three Universal Principals


Five Dimensions of Differentiation


Tools We Are Developing


Innovation Culture, Collaboration & Coordination Assessment

This is a Work in Progress: If you’re interested in partnering with our team to, please don’t hesitate to reach out.


✓ Develop a new product or service that you own at the end of the semester

✓ Learn new innovation approaches

✓ Recruit high potential graduate students working on project

✓ Build your network

Project CourseHave an idea you want to explore?


THANK YOU & ANY QUESTIONS?

For more information about the Carnegie

Bosch Institute contact Gary Matson at

[email protected]

For more information about the Swartz Center

Corporate Startup Lab contact me at

[email protected]

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