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5 steps to successfully collaborate with startups

An easy-to-use guide for finding the right format for your next startup collaboration.

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Insights from 50 new business builders across DACH

What is it about?

We share our learnings on how to successfully collaborate with startups. These are based on our experience of having set up and guided to success more than 50 corporate accelerator programs, and supported over 1000 startups in the process.

Who is it for?

This paper is a guide for innovation managers and executives who want to know how to find the right form of startup collaboration.

What you take away from the whitepaper

  • Why should you collaborate with startups or make use of startup methodologies?
  • What are the different ways of collaboration with startups and what is the right strategy for your company?
  • How do startups differ from you as an established organization and what does that mean in terms of choosing the right collaboration form?
  • What are the first steps to innovate successfully with startups?

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Key numbers

67%

of participants believe new business building will contribute significantly to their company's growth and stability over the next 5 years

39%

of corporate venture building users report their resources decreased in the past 12 months

55%

of less successful new business builders name strategic direction as their top struggle

82%

of participants who face challenges in ideation struggle more with identifying strategically aligned opportunites - not generating volume.

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