Sean Moffitt's Startups, Entrepreneurs & Incubators Experience & Credibility
Tied to Top 50 Global Incubators, Research Centres & Accelerators
Set up an Incubator for Large Global Non-Profit
Acted as an Entrepreneur for 10+ years
Ten Facets of Startups, Entrepreneurship & Incubators Best Practices
- Defining Big Market Challenges
- Startup Team DNA
- Embrace the Unknown
- Ideastorming
- Lean Startup Thinking
- Corporate Accelerations
- Design Thinking
- Framing Opportunities
- Scaling Ventures
- Fast Learning & Decisions
Scoping out the current market problem, company & project purpose and charter.
Identifying the right champions & sponsors, building collaborative inputs and multifunctional team roles and well-balanced mindsets.
Nurturing risk appetite, altered perspectives and experimentation, questioning status quo and parent company ethos.
Identifying wicked opportunities by drawing on: startup learning, trend extrapolation, clever copycatting, radical thinking, what if scenarios, analogous comparisons, pigyybacking creativity, technology inspiration, customer need recognition and mind mapping.
Looking at solution and problem space, identifying, iterating and launching experiments , focusing on unique, single-minded value propositions and unfair advantages.
Building slack time, incubating slush funds, hosting hackathons and developing centralized function of excellence and cross company catalysts.
Inspire, idea and implementation excellence with the importance of observing user needs, clustered concepts testing and business modelling..
Prototyping (field testing, minimum viable products), Pitching (storytelling and developing momentum) and Investment Cases (working within constraints/meritocracy) .
Ensuring quick and appropriate incubating, scaling, investing, pivoting and disbanding ventures.
Eliminating inefficiencies, red tape and bottlenecks, keeping teams agile in process, thinking and structure, and embracing rapid iteration and decisions.
“Lead, follow or get out of the way.”
― Thomas Paine, American Revolutionist