1. Getting ready for strategic corporate investments
Early stage – perspective
Antti Kosunen
Nestholma Renewal Accelerator

2. Best innovations come from cooperation between startups and corporations

3. Most people think it’s all about the idea.
It’s not. EVERYONE has ideas.
The hard part is to execute on the idea.
- Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur

4. Paradox
Business process = must
Business process = impossible

5. You have to learn the rules of the game
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else
- Albert Einstein

6. Do you know the rules of the game?

7. Do you know the rules of the game? Do you know what is the game?

8. Don’t
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9. Don’t
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10. Don’t
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11. Don’t
A S S U M E
- Benny Hill

12. Corporate culture kills cooperation

13. Everybody has a different reason why not

14. Go where the puck is
Wayne Gretzky

15. Go where the puck is going
Wayne Gretzky

16. Startup defenition?

17. A tool for
organization renewal

18. A tool for
cultural change

19. A tool for
getting innovations

20. Ad-hoc is the most common approach

21. Corporate culture kills cooperation

22. The only way to learn how to work with startups is to work with startups.
Not when you’re launching the first time, maybe not ever
Don’t start to optimize before you know what is core and what is just nice to have

23. Systematic Work - not play

24. Get ready for strategic corporate investments
Antti Kosunen
Nestholma Renewal Accelerator