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Hacking the Enterprise | 5 Reasons Corporations Should Look Locally to Work with Startups

Silicon Valley gets a lot of shine. We get it, the Valley has star power and volume. But, corporations are spread out across the country, and may not need to build up frequent flier mileage to find innovative startups. At our corporate innovation strategy group Your Ideas Are Terrible, we&

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Hacking the Enterprise: How Corporate-Hosted Startup Engagement Events Can Actually Be Useful

Events that involved both corporations and startups can be invigorating. Corporate employees can emerge out of their cubicles and hobnob with entrepreneurs who throw out startup buzzwords over craft beer. Unfortunately, once the sparkle settles, there are typically no tangible results from these meetings — but we can change that. Here’

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Hacking the Enterprise: A Corporate Innovation How-To Guide

In our work helping organizations build and sustain cultures of innovation, we've found that people in roles not directly connected to “innovation” aren’t sure what to do when they’re asked to “be innovative” or support innovation culture. In an effort to help these people internalize what

Put Your App On the Blockchain — Or Build Something Brand New — At Blockstack's DappHack

Your Ideas Are Terrible has partnered with Blockstack to host #DappHack Sharpen your skill set or learn blockchain stack development without having to start from scratch. Join fellow developers to build a dapp — a distributed app — in a twenty-four-hour deep dive into the blockchain industry's most

Hacking the Enterprise: Internal Tactics to Deal with Innovation Budget Cuts

Hacking the Enterprise: Internal Tactics to Deal with Innovation Budget Cuts

Bad quarters can happen to the best companies and budgets cuts to innovation tend to follow. While strategically dubious, this will continue as long as short term goals are prioritized over long term objectives. If you find yourself in this situation, don’t dial back your plans or feel deflated.

Carie Davis

Carie Davis On Why Your Ideas Might Be Terrible — But A Startup Can Help You Fix Them

From industrial design to developing an entrepreneurial training program to helping launch a corporate commercialization program for startups, the common thread throughout Carie Davis's varied career has been helping people learn how to think. The co-founder and partner of innovation consultancy Your Ideas Are Terrible, Davis found