idealabs: contributing to the Belgian entrepreneurial community
4 likes1,428 views
The document outlines plans to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem and hub in Antwerp, Belgium. It discusses establishing an accelerator program and coworking space to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, universities and more. The goals are to shape the community around lean startup principles, host regular engaging events, and blend startups and large companies by teaching intrapreneurship classes and applying lean methodology to corporations. The final step is to open an on-site product lab for rapid prototyping. The overall aim is to create a vibrant startup community in Antwerp through these initiatives.
idealabs: contributing to the Belgian entrepreneurial community
- 1. Shape, build, and launch to market in three months #stoptalkingstartbuilding
- 2. idealabs has the ambition to help build a strong and sustainable entrepreneurial community in Antwerp
- 3. Why Antwerp?
- 4. Participants of a Entrepreneurial ecosystem Entrepreneurs Government Universities Investors Mentors Service providers Large companies
- 5. Successful Entrepreneurial ecosystems Boulder Chile San Fransisco vs New York Dublin Amsterdam Berlin Helsinki Eindhoven Moscow Paris Stockholm
- 6. Principles of a Entrepreneurial ecosystem 1. Entrepreneurs must lead the startup community 2. The leaders must have a long-term commitment 3. The start up community must be inclusive of anyone who wants to participate in it 4. The startup community must have continual activities that engage the entire entrepreneurial stack
- 7. How we are setting those principles into work.
- 9. Stripped building 3 month set up! Private fund validation of need! Core team validation of interest! Strong Backers validation of ideas? FIRST STEP: MVP accelerator
- 10. shape build launch MONTH 1 MONTH 2 MONTH 3
- 11. philosophy what we believe in Be more innovative. Stop wasting people's time. Be more successful. eric ries the lean startup movement
- 12. philosophy MVP Minimum set of features Learn from early adopters Avoid building a product nobody wants Learn from testing eric ries the lean startup movement
- 13. philosophy what we believe in
- 14. From 70 applications we chose 3 startups for our accelerator
- 15. First cycle:They worked very hard!
- 16. Second step: Turn that stripped building in to a entrepreneurial HUB
- 17. THE SPACE HUB EVENTS CAMPUS COFFEELABS
- 18. A space where people, technology, materials, philosophies and ideas mix, collide and collaborate to produce ground breaking innovations
- 19. Center of Antwerp / 2000 sqm / Workshops/ Speaker Series / Networking Events / Building prototypes / Breakout office / Private meetings
- 20. Phase 2: Identify vibrant entrepreneurial community through meaningful events
- 21. Meaningful events that should inspire educate engage Startup Stories Startup Start Up Essentials: Weekend Founder stories -Business Model Canvas Hackathon Corporate -Online marketing innovation Ideathon -Lean Startup Intrapreneurs -Startup Tools Corporate innovation Lab -PR for startups 2013 2013 2013 Big Conference Startup Event space Academy
- 22. VIBRANT COMMUNITY IDEALABS IMPACT MEANINGFUL EVENTS
- 23. Third Step: expanding community- Blending Companies and Startups at idealabs
- 24. Stodgy. Slow. Bureaucratic. Big companies get a bad rap when it comes to innovation.
- 25. Big companies are applying startup strategies and tools to jump-start innovation. Its not about pontificating on the innovation process. Its about being lean, focused, and maniacally
- 26. FIRST STEPS Intuit organizes multi-day lean start-ins that gather intrapreneurs together from across the company to teach them how to apply rapid experimentation to create new products, services, and business models. Kimberly-Clark promotes one- day expert acceleration sessions that bring hand- picked outside thought leaders face to face with business teams to bust mental models and create game- changing strategies. Whirlpool uses a network of innovation mentors (also called i-mentors), who are loaded with innovation tools and guidance to help business teams focused on challenging market orthodoxies.
- 27. BIG STEPS BBC Worldwide officially launched Volkswagen Group of America BBC Worldwide Labs. The initiative is Electronics Research Laboratory aimed at supporting the creative and (ERL) has teamed up withPlug digital industries in the UK by and Play to accelerate and offering them insight and expertise collaborate with startups to into the industry. transfer technology from many industries into the automotive domain. Pepsi Co wants to get in on the ground level with companies that could become the next Twitter via its Digital Labs program.
- 28. Big companies that behave like small startups focus on two things: First, they Second, they give accelerate the internal businesses speed of and teams an innovation, outside-in just like a perspective, similar Silicon Valley to the type of incubator. reality-checking that comes from advisory boards or venture capitalists.
- 29. LBi improves collaboration with clients after Hyper Island experience
- 30. General Assembly partners with General Electric
- 31. We are blending companies and startups at idealabs 1. Business model 3. Lean Startup innovation classes: methodology applied to challenge the status-quo corportations. Shape, and identify the business build, launch approach and revenue models of workshop: the future Incubation of 2. Classes for intrapreneurs/ intrapreneurs: rapid corporate venturing experimentation techniques to create new Corporate innovation products, services and labs business models.
- 32. Last Step: Experimenting ourselves, and opening a mini Product Lab
- 33. Product Lab: offer people the opportunity to do some rapid prototyping right behind the coffeebar
- 34. Thanks for listening! Got any questions? www.idealabs.be @idealabs_be Nicolas Verellen nicolas.verellen@idealabs.be