Outperforming Startups: What Corporate Ventures Are Getting Right

Lost In Transformation

Why will the future of innovation be in corporate startups? Sam Hall, CEO in Asia Pacific of Rainmaking, a corporate innovation and venture development company, shares his outlook on the future of innovation.
He highlights his philosophy of career fulfilment based on his own switch of career paths, and guides us through his work of creating impact and an environment for growth.
Learn all his tips on corporate venture building, from setting up the founding team, to involving external entrepreneurs, and essential steps to the success of building new ventures.

Chapter

1. Outperforming Startups: What Corporate Ventures Are Getting Right (00:00:00)

2. How did Sam get into venture building? (00:01:33)

3. How to get unstuck? (00:05:03)

4. How has Sam's career journey impacted his work now? (00:07:06)

5. What are the startups Sam would like to share about? (00:09:44)

6. Why should corporates develop the institutional competence of new business building? (00:12:25)

7. How does leveraging assets in a corporate contribute to the success of building new ventures? (00:16:19)

8. How to interface with the corporation people who are gatekeepers to the access of assets? (00:19:35)

9. What's the essential ingredient to groundbreaking cultural change? (00:22:05)

10. What is the benefit of having external entrepreneurs involved in a new venture? (00:23:37)

11. How does Sam recommend founding teams be set up? (00:28:01)

12. What does Sam think about the validation time before launching into a new business? (00:30:58)

13. How does Sam measure his own success at Rainmaking? (00:34:51)

14. What difficulties does Sam face when speaks to the new partners? (00:36:08)

15. What areas of opportunity in Sam's opinion have been accelerated for 2021/2022? (00:39:42)