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Innovation Hub / 65 Corporate Innovation Labs
« on: March 07, 2018, 03:23:18 PM »65 Corporate Innovation Labs
1. Hewlett-Packard
Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs
Founded: 1966
HP Labs is an award-winning research facility focusing on technologies like natural language detection, audio/video analytics, immersive experiences, 3D printing, and more.
2. Google
Innovation Lab Name: X
Founded: 2010
Google’s X research center is where some of their biggest projects happen. These teams work on research that’s not directly tied to a product and encompasses challenging fields like speech processing, machine intelligence, quantum AI, and more.
3. Xerox
Innovation Lab Name: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Founded: 1970
The PARC’s professed philosophy is “open innovation.” Founded in 1970, PARC has worked on world-changing innovations like Ethernet, laser printing, and GUIs.
4. Microsoft
Innovation Lab Name: Microsoft Research Lab
Founded: 1991
Microsoft has numerous labs, each with its own flavor, aimed at applying research independent of product development cycles. Projects include Skype translation, talk-to-text transcription, real-time hand tracking for single-depth cameras, and more.
5. Google
Innovation Lab Name: The Garage
Founded: 2008
While X may be more well known, there’s a lot of work and play happening at The Garage. Originally opened in 2008 by a group of Googlers who wanted someplace a bit more free-form to do their “20% work.” (“20% work” itself is a form of constant innovation: it’s the 20% of the workweek during which Google employees get to work on projects not directly connected to their core tasks.) It’s open to all Googlers and boasts 3D printers, tons of tools, a CNC machine, and plenty of collaborative workspace to encourage out-of-the-box thinking.
6. TCS
Innovation Lab Name: TCS Innovation Labs
Founded: 1981
TCS’s world-spanning network of Technology, Domain, and Academic Alliance Labs let IT experts of all stripes create new systems. Products from these labs include HeartSense and AkTrac (“wellness apps for activity detection and physiological sensing using mobile phones and wearables”), a mobile phone digital stethoscope, and RehabBox, a “Kinect-based telerehab system for post stroke patients.”
7. Oracle
Innovation Lab Name: Oracle Labs
Originally founded as Sun Microsystems Laboratories, it was rebranded Oracle Labs after their acquisition in 2010. Their research philosophies are exploratory research, directed research, consulting, and product incubation. Past projects that have grown out of Oracle Labs research include chip multithreading and the Java programming language.
8. IBM
Innovation Lab Name: IBM Mobile Innovation Lab
The Mobile Innovation Lab brings together cloud and mobile experts to try to develop new technologies and applications for the IBM Cloud, their clients, and more.
9. Avaya
Innovation Lab Name: Avaya Labs Research
Avaya Labs Research center focuses on WebRTC, mobility, cloud, and video solutions. Innovations include an ecommerce delivery mechanism for embedding open, mobile digital communication.
10. Autodesk
Innovation Lab Name: Autodesk Labs
Autodesk, makers of AutoCAD, Revit, and a wide array of design and engineering software, has their own innovation lab, called simply “Autodesk Labs.” This innovation center focuses on “technology previews,” public releases of new technologies in development which have set start and end dates and are focused on garnering user feedback. This feedback is used to improve and refine the technology, though Autodesk is very open to admitting that sometimes what they learn is that they should let what they’re working on go and move on to a new idea.
11. Phillips
Innovation Lab Name: Phillips Design
Founded: 1925
Design is at the core of many high-tech companies and innovation labs alike. Phillips Design focuses on new ideas and new technologies to improve the lives of their customers. This lab gives their innovators, who come from a wide array of disciplines, the freedom to explore and find new solutions. These solutions have garnered them Red Dot Awards, Webbies, Singapore Good Design Marks, and more.
12. Amazon
Innovation Lab Name: Lab 126
Founded: 2004
Founded in 2004, Amazon’s Lab 126 is responsible for innovations like the Kindle, Fire, and Echo. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle.
Telecommunications
13. AT&T
Innovation Lab Name: AT&T Labs Advanced Technologies
AT&T Labs Advanced Technologies focuses on data analytics, cloud services, networking, and much more; this venerable lab has won 8 Nobel prizes.
14. Verizon
Innovation Lab Name: Verizon Innovation Centers
Founded: 2016
Entrepreneurs can apply to the Verizon Innovation Centers in Boston and San Francisco to gain access to the company’s versatile test network and sophisticated technical equipment. From there, Verizon helps its innovators develop their products and businesses with oversight from Verizon’s strategic advisors, then leverage Verizon’s distribution channels for shared revenue opportunities or the chance to bring their developments into Verizon’s product and service suite. Verizon calls the initiative “one of the most ambitious and technologically advanced innovation programs in the technology industry.”
15. Nokia
Innovation Lab Name: Nokia Bell Labs
Founded: 1925 (under AT&T)
Nokia’s innovation lab was founded in 1925 under AT&T and its researchers have worked on inventions like lasers, the C programming language, UNIX, speech recognition, and more. It boasts awards including Nobel Prizes, U.S. National Medal of Science, Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, and many others.
16. Vodafone
Innovation Lab Name: Vodafone Innovation Park Labs
Vodafone’s Labs are focused on creating the next generation of telecommunications breakthroughs. They perform over 1,000 test projects every year on a network powerful enough to provide mobile coverage for a country the size of Switzerland. Past innovations they’ve worked on include LTE networks, IPv6, and remote file access.
17. T-Mobile
Innovation Lab Name: Deutsche Telekom Silicon Valley Innovation Center
Founded: 1925
The experts at T-Mobile’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center focuses on the latest technologies (cloud communications, software-defined Networking, and more) to solve customer problems in creative ways, in an environment that fosters experimentation and new ideas.
18. AT&T
Innovation Lab Name: AT&T Foundry
Founded: 2011
AT&T’s in-house innovation lab is decades old and has come up with countless inventions. They’ve also got six foundry labs located around the world: Atlanta, Houston, Palo Alto, Plano, and Israel. Each focuses on a different industry: home and connected cars, healthcare, cybersecurity, software-defined networks, the IoT, and more. Their goal is to find ideas that “enhance or refine an existing AT&T product or customer experience.” Their experts have partnered with about 500 startups a year since opening the first foundry in 2011; their newest facility opened in Houston in 2016.
Finance
19. Visa
Innovation Lab Name: One Market Center
Founded: 2013
Visa’s innovation lab within One Market Center is designed to offer increased collaboration for teams working on their latest tech solutions. Their projects include tokenization, payment apps, mobile location confirmation, and more.
20. DBS Bank
Innovation Lab Name: DBS Asia X (DAX)
Founded: 2016
DBS launched its Singapore innovation lab to break out of its “traditional banking mindset to think, behave and deliver more like a technology company,” according to Neal Cross, DBS’ chief innovation officer. DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year.
30. Ikea
Innovation Lab Name: Space10
Founded: 2015
Nestled in the heart of Copenhagen’s meatpacking district lies Space10, Ikea’s “secret” research hub and exhibition space. Space10 invites people from the worlds of art, design, and technology to work on research projects that result in a range of Ikea prototypes, exhibitions, events, and workshops.
31. Staples
Innovation Lab Name: Staples Labs: Velocity, Innovation, Development
Founded: 2012
In 2012 the long-lived office superstore opened three labs in separate locations, each with its own mandate. “Velocity Lab” in Cambridge, MA and “Innovation Lab” in San Mateo, CA both handle mobile apps, digital platforms, and in-store technologies. The “Development Lab” in Seattle works on e-commerce platforms and data engineering.
32. The Home Depot
Innovation Lab Name: The Home Depot Innovation Center
Founded: 2015
The Home Depot’s Innovation Center at Georgia Tech is a collaborative space used to recruit top talent and explore how technology might advance retail, supply chain, and more. The second focus for the center is to track emerging technologies like 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, or wearable devices.
33. CVS
Innovation Lab Name: Digital Innovation Lab
Founded: 2015
The CVS innovation center is focused on creating new digital health solutions. Operating like a startup and adhering to concepts like an accelerated idea-to-market schedule and a fast-paced testing and implementation process, their projects include simple things like mobile phone pharmacy reminders and complex ones like apps that turn those phones into remote diagnostic tools.
34. Lululemon
Innovation Lab Name: Lululemon Lab
Founded: 2009 (Vancouver), 2016 (NYC)
Lululemon’s solution to the constant need for new fashions was to open two in-house labs, one in Vancouver (where their corporate offices are) and one in NYC (a worldwide fashion hub). Designers work collaboratively in a setting that encourages forward thinking and creativity.
35. Neiman Marcus
Innovation Lab Name: Neiman Marcus Innovation Lab (iLab)
Founded: 2012
Neiman Marcus has earned a world-class reputation for retail innovation thanks to the iLab, its hub for evaluating, designing, testing, and piloting cutting-edge technologies and applications for luxury retail. Recent projects include connected fitting room technology, intelligent mobile phone charging stations, and voice-controlled sales associate communicators.
36. Walmart
Innovation Lab Name: Walmart Labs
Founded: 2005
Walmart’s innovation lab is designed to help them stay competitive in the increasingly online and mobile world. One notable accomplishment was a large-scale search engine overhaul for their online site that drove a 20% increase in sales. Workers are even organized into “mini-startups,” each with their own projects.
37. Sephora
Innovation Lab Name: Sephora Innovation Lab
Founded: 2015
Sephora’s innovation lab is in a converted warehouse near San Francisco’s Mission Bay district. The facility’s first use was to build and test in-store displays, but in 2015, its focus expanded to include digital, reflecting the increasingly online nature of any kind of shopping experience. Innovation team members work on solutions for web, mobile, and brick-and-mortar applications. The lab even includes a model Sephora store.
45. Lockheed Martin
Innovation Lab Name: Skunk Works
Founded: 1943
While the term “skunkworks” or “skunk works” has come to refer to any secretive research facility or department, the originator of the term was Lockheed Martin’s off-limits R&D team at their Burbank, CA facility. Origin stories conflict slightly, but their first recognized feat was the design of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star in just 143 days, in a contained setup away from other engineers. Development of the fighter actually began four months before formal contracts were delivered, a hallmark of the division’s “off the books” modus operandi and part of the rogue culture that continues to define it to this day. Culture is king for innovation and 70+ years later, teams still strive to produce next-gen aircraft innovations that adhere to founder Kelly Johnson’s mantra of “quick, quiet and quality.”
46. Volkswagen
Innovation Lab Name: Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL)
Founded: 2010
The Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) brings together interdisciplinary teams to work on industry-changing projects. Located on the Stanford University campus, they partner with the school on projects like drive-by-wire and driver assistance systems, the Stanford Solar Car Project, and more.
47. Panasonic
Innovation Lab Name: Panasonic Automotive Innovation Center
Founded: 2013
The Panasonic Automotive Innovation Center, located inside their Centergy One building, is built for collaboration between software, electrical, systems, and mechanical experts working on the next generation of human-machine interfaces for cars.
48. Ford
Innovation Lab Name: Ford Research & Innovation Center
Founded: 2012
Ford’s innovation center boasts open spaces to encourage collaboration and works on projects ranging from autonomous car research with the likes of MIT, Stanford, and the University of Michigan, to Big Data and analytics initiatives.
Health
49. McKesson and the Mayo Clinic
Innovation Lab Name: Center for Innovation
Founded: 2008
The Mayo Clinic and McKesson gathered up a team of 60 innovators for their Center and gave them a simple mandate: to think differently about healthcare. The unit’s philosophy/mantra is to “always be there for me [the patient]” as they tackle tough problems like redesign of care models, keeping patients connected to care in their homes and communities, and creating services to optimize health and wellness.
Since its launch in May 2016, the experts at the Anthem Innovation Studio in Atlanta have been working on a variety of projects that focus on enriching the consumer experience, managing the cost of care, and enhancing provider collaboration.
58. Company: MetLife
Innovation Lab Name: LumenLab
Founded: 2015
MetLife’s LumenLab is a sprawling facility located in Singapore, where innovation experts from a variety of fields, many with startup experience, focus on developing new customer-driven products and solutions. Their goal is to “rewrite the role of insurance in people’s lives.”
Energy/Industrial
59. Company: Southern Company
Innovation Lab Name: Southern Company Energy Innovation Center
Founded: 2015
Southern Company prioritized a commitment to innovation throughout its corporate history. At its Energy Innovation Center in Atlanta’s Technology Square, employees and partners collaborate to answer pressing issues energy-industry issues such as “electric battery storage, electric car technology, and the role of big data in our lives.”
60. Company: Georgia Pacific
Innovation Lab Name: GP Innovation Institute
Founded: 2014
Researchers at Georgia Pacific’s 25,0000-square-foot Innovation Institute are working to reduce supply chain costs and drive sustainability improvements across the company’s products and services. According to GP’s website, they also work with customers to analyze their supply chain and develop “reliable and repeatable 5-step process to come up with innovative packaging solutions that could directly benefit your business.”
61. thyssenkrupp
Innovation Lab Name: thyssenkrupp Elevator Research
Founded: 2015
thyssenkrupp operates 90 Research Innovation Centers (RIC) around the world. At its U.S. center, a team of 13 design, software, and electrical engineers collaborates with university researchers to develop ideas, create 3D printed models, conduct feasibility tests, and work toward implementing new products.
62. Emerson
Innovation Lab Name: The Helix Innovation Center
Founded: 2016
At its 40,000-square-foot facility on the University of Dayton campus, Emerson researchers engineer commercial building controls and HVACR technology. The center contains a total of five real-world simulated environments, including a fully-functioning and furnished home, a model supermarket, a light commercial environment, a commercial kitchen, and a data center. These modules provide a sandbox for rapid prototyping and practical applications.
Travel/Hospitality
63. Marriott
Innovation Lab Name: Marriott Pop-Up Innovation Lab
While it may not be around for long, Marriott debuted an interactive model hotel experience in downtown Los Angeles hotel in January 2017 to crowdsource real-time feedback from the public. The pop-up lab features tech-centric beverage concepts, communal-area pilot projects, and eco-conscious offerings. Marriott has also showcased hotels in “live beta” as part of its commitment to innovation.
64. Delta
Innovation Lab Name: The Hangar
Founded: 2016
Delta says it’s not “chasing tech for tech sake” at The Hangar, but rather “looking for real opportunities to solve business problems.” Projects to date include a “pre-select meal bot,” voice assistants for flight updates, drone lightning inspections, and a mobile gate interface for Delta agents.
65. AccorHotels
Innovation Lab Name: Disruption & Growth
Founded: 2013
AccorHotels drives collaboration between startups and major groups in its business by bringing them together in a space with “an open innovation laboratory on one side and a vast industrial testing ground on the other.” The company’s Disruption & Growth department coordinates efforts between the two.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/corporate-innovation-labs/
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Innovation Hub / World’s Top 10 Innovation Hubs
« on: March 07, 2018, 03:18:54 PM »World’s Top 10 Innovation Hubs
The global start-up scene is thriving, and making the world a smaller, more connected place. A GEM Global Report revealed that 100 million businesses launch around the globe on an annual basis. While venture capitalists invested US$42 billion in 2012, with nearly 70% of funding to the U.S. scene, start-up hubs are emerging all over the world and capturing the attention of Venture Capitals (VCs) and innovators.
Here are the top start-up hubs and emerging tech scenes of 2017:
Singapore,
Despite the high rent, this island fosters a serious pro-business climate. It provides a wealth of networking opportunities and generous start-up support.
Bangalore, India
Known as the Silicon Valley of India, this thriving city is home to 4900 start-ups, including many Eastern branches of major tech companies. With $2.3 billion in investments, it’s flourishing with VC activity and more than half of all Indian start-ups.
Paris, France
The mecca for European start-ups, it’s the 2nd largest start-up hub in Europe. Parisian entrepreneurs will be launching the world’s largest tech incubator in April 2017.
Lisbon, Portugal
With affordable rent, a laid-back lifestyle, young entrepreneurs are increasingly drawn to the sun-laden city that hosted 2016’s Web Summit.
Berlin, Germany
The German capital was 2015’s fastest growing start-up ecosystem globally. Affordable rent makes it attractive for early-stage start-ups, seeing one start-up founded every 20 minutes.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Entrepreneurism is alive and well in Tel Aviv. With hundreds of accelerators and co-working spaces throughout the city, starting a company is trending.
Moscow, Russia
Tax incentives and quality education are reason enough why 6000 tech companies launched in the city between 2011 and 2016.
Stockholm, Sweden
On a per capita basis, Stockholm is the 2nd largest start-up hub. With the fame of Plentiful Unicorns and world-leading technology, 22,000 start-ups call it home.
London, England
With 7.2 billion pounds invested in London start-ups in 2016 alone, Europe’s number one hub is thriving.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
With three of Latin America’s top engineering schools, a pro-business president, and intentional investment into co-working spaces, this city is on the verge of becoming the “it” place for entrepreneurs.
https://www.techrevolution.asia/the-worlds-top-10-start-up-hubs/
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Newspaper / সবুর খান ডব্লিউবিএএফ-এর বাংলাদেশ হাই কমিশনার নিযুক্ত
« on: March 07, 2018, 01:25:07 PM »সবুর খান ডব্লিউবিএএফ-এর বাংলাদেশ হাই কমিশনার নিযুক্ত
বিশ্বের সর্ববৃহৎ অ্যাঞ্জেল ইনভেস্টর ফোরাম ‘ওয়ার্ল্ড বিজনেস অ্যাঞ্জেল ইনভেস্টমেন্ট ফোরাম (ডব্লিউবিএএফ)’ তাদের বাংলাদেশ হাইকমিশনার হিসেবে ড্যাফোডিল ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ইউনিভার্সিটির ট্রাস্টি বোর্ডের চেয়ারম্যান ড. মোঃ সবুর খানকে নিযুক্ত করেছে। তুরস্কের ইস্তামবুলে অনুষ্ঠিত ডব্লিউবিএএফ ওয়ার্ল্ড কংগ্রেসে গতকাল সোমবার (১৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি) এ ঘোষনা দেয়া হয় এবং শপথ গ্রহণ অনুষ্ঠান অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। অনুষ্ঠানে ডব্লিউবিএএফ এর চেয়ারম্যান বেবার্স আলটান্টাস ৪১ দেশের ৪১জন হাইকমিশনারকে মেসিডোনিয়ার রাষ্ট্রপতি ড. জর্জি ইভানভের সঙ্গে পরিচয় করিয়ে দেন। এ সময় তুরস্কের উন্নয়ন মন্ত্রী, পোর্ট সিটির মেয়র, হাঙ্গেরির প্রতিনিধি, জেসিআই-এর বৈশ্বিক সভাপতি, কাতার বিজনেস ইনকিউবেশন সেন্টারের চেয়ারম্যান, তুবিতাকের সভাপতি, মেসিডোনিয়া চেম্বার অব কমার্সের সভাপতি, এসএমই ফাইন্যান্স ফোরামের প্রধান নির্বাহীসহ ওয়ার্ল্ডস ইকুইটি মার্কেটের ২৫০জন গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ব্যক্তিত্ব ও বিশ্বের প্রধান প্রধান অ্যাঞ্জেল ইনভেস্টমেন্ট নেটওয়ার্কের বিশিষ্ট ব্যক্তিবর্গ উপস্থিত ছিলেন। অনুষ্ঠান শেষে তারা একটি নৈশভোজে অংশগ্রহণ করেন।
ড. মোঃ সবুর খানের এই পদায়নের মধ্য দিয়ে বাংলাদেশ বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে বড় অ্যাঞ্জেল ফোরামে যুক্ত হলো এবং এর মাধ্যমে বাংলাদেশের জন্য চমৎকার এক সুযোগর দ্বার উন্মোচিত হলো।
দেশের অর্থনৈতিক উন্নয়নে ভূমিকা রাখা এবং উদ্যোক্তা উন্নয়নে অসামান্য অবদান রাখার কারণে ড. মোঃ সবুর খানকে ডব্লিউবিএএফ-এর হাই কমিশনার হিসেবে নিয়োগ দেয়া হয়েছে। উল্লেখ্য, ডব্লিউবিএএফ প্রতিটি দেশ থেকে একজন ব্যাক্তিকে তার নেতৃত্ব, সুনাম, কর্মকান্ড ও জাতীয় অর্থনীতিতে অবদানের জন্য ডব্লিউবিএএফ এর হাই কমিশনার নিযুক্ত করে থাকে। বাংলাদেশে মোঃ সবুর খানের সহযোগী হিসেবে কাজ করবেন বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেডের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক গোলাম মনোয়ার কামাল।
তুরস্কে অনুষ্ঠিত তিন দিনের এই সম্মেলনে মোঃ সবুর খান ইমপ্যাক্ট ইনভেস্টমেন্ট সামিট, ফাইনটেক সামিট ও সিইও-প্রেনারশিপ সামিটে অংশগ্রহণ করেন।
https://goo.gl/4y9ici
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Newspaper / ড্যাফোডিল বিজনেস ইনকিউবেটরের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান
« on: March 03, 2018, 05:30:59 PM »ড্যাফোডিল বিজনেস ইনকিউবেটরের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান
ড্যাফোডিল বিজনেস ইনকিউবেটরের আওতাধীন তিনটি উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সফলভাবে সম্পন্ন করে ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল কোম্পানির কাছ থেকে বিদায় নিয়েছে। প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটি হচ্ছে বিডি স্যুভেনির, ফুডিফাই এবং আপনারি ডটকম। তাদের এই উদ্যোক্তার পথচলাতে বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেড ইক্যুইটি সহযাত্রী হিসেবে সর্বদা পাশে থেকে তাদের উন্নয়নে কাজ করে গেছে। প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটির বার্ষিক টার্নওভার গড়ে ৫০ লাখ টাকা এবং ব্যবসায়িক অগ্রগতি গড়ে ২ শতাংশ। ব্যবসার এই ক্রমবিকাশ উদ্যোক্তাদের বয়সের তুলনায় আশাব্যাঞ্জক কারণ তারা সকলেই বয়সে তরুণ। উদ্যোক্তাগণ তাদের ইক্যুইটি পার্টনার বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেডকে লাভসহ বিনিয়োগ ফিরিয়ে দিতেও সক্ষম হয়েছে। সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি।
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Newspaper / প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সম্পন্ন করল ড্যাফোডিলের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ
« on: March 03, 2018, 05:28:58 PM »প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সম্পন্ন করল ড্যাফোডিলের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান
তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি প্রতিবেদক, ম্যাঙ্গোটিভি: বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল থেকে প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সম্পন্ন করল তিনটি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান। ড্যাফোডিল বিজনেস ইনকিউবেটরের আওতাধীন তিনটি উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ শেষ করেছে।
প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটি হচ্ছে বিডি স্যুভেনির, ফুডিফাই এবং আপনারি ডটকম।
তাদের এই উদ্যোক্তার পথচলাতে বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেড ইক্যুইটি সহযাত্রী হিসেবে সর্বদা পাশে থেকে তাদের উন্নয়নে কাজ করে গেছে। প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটির বার্ষিক টার্নওভার গড়ে ৫০ লাখ টাকা এবং ব্যবসায়িক অগ্রগতি গড়ে ২ শতাংশ।
ব্যবসার এই ক্রমবিকাশ উদ্যোক্তাদের বয়সের তুলনায় আশাব্যাঞ্জক কারণ তারা সকলেই বয়সে তরুণ। উদ্যোক্তাগণ তাদের ইক্যুইটি পার্টনার বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেডকে লাভসহ বিনিয়োগ ফিরিয়ে দিতেও সক্ষম হয়েছে।
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Newspaper / প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সম্পন্ন করল ড্যাফোডিলের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা
« on: March 03, 2018, 05:28:05 PM »প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সম্পন্ন করল ড্যাফোডিলের ৩টি সফল উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান
ড্যাফোডিল বিজনেস ইনকিউবেটরের আওতাধীন তিনটি উদ্যোক্তা প্রতিষ্ঠান প্রথমবারের মতো ‘ইনকিউবেশন পর্ব’ সফলভাবে সম্পন্ন করে ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপটিাল কোম্পানির কাছ থেকে বিদায় নিয়েছে।
প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটি হচ্ছে বিডি স্যুভেনির, ফুডিফাই এবং আপনারি ডটকম। তাদের এই উদ্যোক্তার পথচলাতে বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেড ইক্যুইটি সহযাত্রী হিসেবে সর্বদা পাশে থেকে তাদের উন্নয়নে কাজ করে গেছে।
প্রতিষ্ঠান তিনটির বার্ষিক টার্নওভার গড়ে ৫০ লাখ টাকা এবং ব্যবসায়িক অগ্রগতি গড়ে ২ শতাংশ। ব্যবসার এই ক্রমবিকাশ উদ্যোক্তাদের বয়সের তুলনায় আশাব্যাঞ্জক কারণ তারা সকলেই বয়সে তরুণ।
উদ্যোক্তাগণ তাদের ইক্যুইটি পার্টনার বাংলাদেশ ভেঞ্চার ক্যাপিটাল লিমিটেডকে লাভসহ বিনিয়োগ ফিরিয়ে দিতেও সক্ষম হয়েছে।
http://bit.ly/2tha7bQ
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Innovation & Creativity / Innovation & Creativity
« on: February 28, 2018, 01:58:31 PM »Innovation & Creativity
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Business Incubator / 7 Incubators That Can Help Your Startup
« on: February 28, 2018, 01:54:21 PM »7 Incubators That Can Help Your Startup
1. CSI Kickstart: Known for their mentorship, impressive toolbox spilling over with resources and the ability to connect projects with the right investors, possible investors, mentors and more, CSI has it all. The incubator offers everything from human resources to knowledgeable entrepreneurs with an in-house production company -- and even a virtual candy drawer!
2. 1M/1M: This global incubator is wholly digital and aspires to help one million entrepreneurs achieve one million dollars in annual revenue within the next four years. This will lead to up to ten million jobs. Based on online educational programming, you’ll experience video lectures and get connected with online strategies and mentors. Aspects of this virtual incubator are free, but only approved members can access the entire program.
3. eFactory: Based at Missouri State University, recipients are startups that aren’t physically nearby but are a good match for the program goals. Emerging businesses, startups and job creation are the goals of the eFactory. You can access the incubator program for support services, counseling, admin support and shared equipment. Mail services, virtual conference rooms and access to mailing lists and mentorship are at the heart of this program.
4. DreamIt Ventures: DreamIt focuses on the trifecta of the startup world -- startups themselves, investors and corporate innovators. It’s one of the 20 most active incubators in the country, DreamIt is all about helping entrepreneurs scale via securing capital and customers. The incubator also partners with brands and corporations to help with pilot programs and tech advancement. Top angel networks and venture capitalists also connect with DreamIt for a healthy startup ecosystem.
5. 500 Startups: Thousands of companies, over 3,000 founders and more than 50 countries have worked with 500 Startups to accelerate, grow, scale and get on the right track for long-term success. Known for their diversity in every which way, you’ll find 500 Startups projects around the globe from Mexico City to Miami and Seoul to Berlin. They invest in all types of startups (no niches here) and offer a four-month accelerator approach that provides hands-on learning, office space (if you’d like), mentorship and an investment of $100,000 for just 5 percent of a startup. It’s not technically all offsite, but with so many options around the world, relocating won’t be an issue for most.
6. Amplify LA: Focused on tech startups, Amplify LA understands that not all startups are equal -- and that means their goals and paths aren’t the same. Adopting a flexible approach is at the center of the program, with an accelerator customized to each project. There’s no catch-all calendar or required schedule for all. Instead, mentors watch a startup’s performance and offer support. On-site support in Venice Beach is an option, but with the flexible mentorship approach, mandatory requirements are slim.
7. Startx: If someone in your startup has a connection to Stanford, you can qualify for the Accelerator Program. Your connection can come from your undergraduate or graduate years, but only one person needs to have such a connection. Otherwise, on-site incubator options are available, including a visiting professorship.
Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287026
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Digital Marketing / Traditional marketing vs Digital marketing
« on: February 27, 2018, 11:11:35 AM »Traditional marketing vs Digital marketing
Bangladesh Venture Capital Limited (BVCL)
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Digital Marketing / 12 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Can Help You Grow Your Business (Infographic)
« on: February 27, 2018, 11:01:11 AM »12 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Can Help You Grow Your Business (Infographic)
1. Because Digital Marketing Levels the Online Playing Field
Gone are the days when business owners still welcome the notion that Digital Marketing is only for the likes of multinationals and large corporations that have the sufficient resources required to mount an online marketing campaign. Digital Marketing actually levels the playing field, providing small and medium enterprises the chance to compete against the big boys and attract their share of targeted traffic.
With digital marketing, small companies now have the resources to perform sales and marketing processes that were previously available only to large corporations. Without a call center, small businesses can engage effectively with multiple customers, even to customers from any parts of the world even if they don’t have physical stores or branches in these locations.
2. Because Digital Marketing Is More Cost-Effective than Traditional Marketing
Small businesses have very little resources and even capitalization. This is why Digital Marketing provides them with a better and much more cost-effective marketing channel that delivers results. Gartner’s Digital Marketing Spend Report highlighted that up to 40% of respondents claimed getting considerable savings by using digital marketing methods of promotion for their products and services.
That is why according to the Gartner survey, 28% of business owners surveyed will shift marketing budget allocations from traditional media channels and invest them into digital online marketing tools and techniques. HubSpot confirms this as shown in the chart below that confirms how digital marketers get better Cost-Per-Lead (CPL) compared to other marketing channels.
3. Because Digital Marketing Delivers Conversion
Businesses marketing products and services online measure success by the percentage rate of incoming traffic gets converted into leads, subscribers or sales, depending on the intended purposes of your website. Without conversion, all your traffic would mean nothing and all your marketing efforts will simply go to waste. That is why business owners are streamlining their digital marketing campaigns towards conversion optimization, making it a top priority above everything else.
Top Priorities for Digital Marketers in 2013
There are several tools and techniques that you can use for your digital marketing campaign such as Search Engine Optimization, social media marketing and email marketing. As seen from the chart below from HubSpot’s 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report, these three that generate quick and effective communication and interaction with targeted audiences will deliver better-than-average results in terms of higher conversion rates.
4. Because Digital Marketing Helps Generate Better Revenues
Higher conversion rates generated by effective digital marketing techniques will deliver loads of profitable benefits for you and your business in terms of better and higher revenues. Google confirms this in a study with IPSOS Hong Kong, claiming 2.8 times better revenue growth expectancy for companies using digital marketing strategies to those who do not.
With better revenue growth expectancy, small and medium enterprises using digital marketing techniques will have 3.3 times better chances of expanding their workforce and business – opening their doors to better, larger and farther reaching markets both locally and abroad. Google’s Asia-Pacific Head of SME Kevin O’Kane describes the Internet as rocket fuel for growth for small and medium enterprises.
5. Because Digital Marketing Facilitates Interaction with Targeted Audiences
One of the reasons why digital marketing is taking over traditional marketing channels is the ability of Internet marketing tools to interact with targeted audiences in real time. Engagement in any form is what your customers expect to receive when interacting with your brand or business. How your business handles such engagements and interactions will spell the difference between business success and failure – just like what eMarketer’s report Key Digital Trends for 2014 is saying as shown below.
real time marketing stats
Interacting and providing your customers with proper engagement points can give you an insight of what your targeted audiences want. This vital information will steer you towards making the right set of next moves, provide your customers with an even better experience, develop good relationships with them – gaining their loyalty and trust that you will need when your business begins to grow.
6. Because Digital Marketing Caters to the Mobile Consumer
Undoubtedly, mobile internet will be the next wave of information dissemination and communication channel, brought about by the rapid proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other internet-enabled devices. These mobile devices have become a central part of American life that 91% of adults in the United States always have their devices within reaching distance.
Now would be the best time to have digital marketing campaigns intended towards mobile consumers, paving the way for them towards achieving better growth and faster expansion. Mobile gadgets have evolved from being mere alternatives for laptops and personal computers, into something that is influencing their purchasing decisions as confirmed by another report from eMarketer.
7. Because Digital Marketing Builds Brand Reputation
The power of digital marketing lies in its ability for attracting targeted traffic. These types of audiences for your content are most likely already ready to know more about your brand, products or services and may be interested enough to purchase what you have to offer. Delivering on what you promised will help you develop a better relationship with your targeted audiences, help them transition into paying customers that will go back and interact with your site some more – on a regular and continuous basis.
This will prove beneficial for your brand reputation, as satisfied customers will most likely tell other people about their experience with your brand, product or service. Your brand reputation will go viral as expected, further opening new doors of opportunities for reaching bigger markets and attain business growth.
8. Because Digital Marketing Provides better ROI for Your Marketing Investments
With better revenues and better branding, Digital Marketing can provide a better Return of Investments (ROI) than traditional media and marketing channels. With traditional media, the cost is too exorbitant for small and medium enterprises to leverage on, and the results received are somewhat vague and difficult to measure.
Digital Marketing on the other hand can easily be tracked and monitored, with results immediately realized and measured as soon as targeted audiences provide contact information, subscribe to a newsletter or training program, or make a purchase. The key to success in Digital marketing however, is to generate a steady flow of targeted traffic that converts into sales and leads. The more your business generates this kind of traffic, the faster you can realize your ROI.
9. Because Digital Marketing Earns People’s Trust
Digital Marketing rides on the current online trend that focus more on social media signals resulting from direct and more personalized interaction between a brand or business and their targeted audiences. In the Nielsen Global Online Consumer Survey that involved 25 thousand consumers coming from at least 50 countries, 90 percent of respondents claimed they would trust information about a particular brand, product or service if the data comes from people they know.
Digital Marketing leverages on social media signals, social proof and testimonials from actual consumers who have previously purchased, joined, or availed of a product or service marketed by a particular brand or business. The more reliable these social signals are, the higher the trust rate it can generate from targeted audiences – most of which can be potential customers.
10. Because Digital Marketing Entices People to Take Favorable Action
While social signals and testimonials help earn trust from targeted audiences, Digital Marketing makes use of effective strategies that will entice people to take a favorable action your brand or business intends them to take. Conversion to leads or sales is still initiated and under full control by the website visitor. They are not compelled to do so but digital marketers can make use of clever and innovative ways to entice conversion using Calls-To-Action.
Calls-To-Action specifies what your web visitors should do next – either to sign up, like, download something, call or buy – specific steps that will entice them to perform a favorable action. Innovative forms, buttons and texts are optimized according to copy, color scheme, graphics and even positioning on the page to generate the best results in terms of generating favorable action.
11. Because Digital Marketing Makes You Ready for the Internet of Things
The “Internet of Things” is a global ecosystem of interconnected devices – tablets, smartphones, gadgets, appliances and more – that can interact with each other through the Internet. Sounds like something from a Sci-Fi thriller, but this is what the projected 24 billion gadgets by the year 2020 will actually head to. Digital Marketing will prepare your business towards this eventuality, an interconnected ecosystem that will permeate through every aspect of people’s lives. Survival for your business in the era of the “Internet of Things” means inclusion in this interconnected grid – giving you an access window to reach out to targeted audiences belonging to this online grid.
12. Because Digital Marketing Ensures Business Survival Online
It is a normal occurrence for brick-and-mortar business establishments to encounter visitors entering their store, skimming through and inspecting products, then leave without buying anything. Many kinds of people like these come and go, but a targeted few will actually make a purchase and if satisfied, will come back for more on a later date. If you get less of the later and more of the few, sooner or later your brick-and-mortar business will cease to exist.
http://digitalmarketingphilippines.com/12-reasons-why-digital-marketing-can-help-you-grow-your-business/
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Leadership Story / How does hiring change as the business scales?
« on: February 25, 2018, 06:19:54 PM »How does hiring change as the business scales?
- In some regards, it's not different at all, and I'll come to that in a second. In other regards, it's vastly different. The machinery that goes into hiring at scale once you achieve critical mass, when you're at 15 people, and you're hiring single-digit people to add to the team, that's something the team can do. When you're at 150 people trying to scale to 300 and you need double the size of the company, at some point you're going to need to have dedicated recruiters. When you're at 300, and you're growing to 3,000, you're going to need sourcers, and then you're going to need people to support them. You're going to need recruiters and schedulers and the apparatus, the machinery behind recruiting at scale is quite substantial.
In that regard that changes. That's very logical. What shouldn't change, but unfortunately does is once you recognize who you are as an organization, your culture, your values, the more you can hire against your culture and values and not compromise, I think the more likely you are to be successful. Where a lot of hyper-growth companies go off the rails is they need to grow from 150 to 300 to keep pace with the competition, to develop that next breakthrough innovation, to hire sales people to fulfill demand, to hire people in G&A functions to be able to support the rest of the organization, and without putting butts in the seats, there may be a fear that it's going to limit the growth of the organization.
What happens inevitably is whereas you set the bar very clearly and explicitly in terms of where you want to hire, who you want to hire, the quality of people, the cultural fit, you start to compromise. For example, you'll see someone. They'll come in and on paper, LinkedIn profile for example, they have great skills, but for whatever reason during the interview process, you got the sense they're not going to be a cultural fit. Where an organization's headed for trouble is when you sit around with your hiring team, your hiring committee, whatever decision making process you have for recruiting, and someone says, "Look at the skills of this person." We interview them.
They're not a cultural fit, but we'll make it work. We'll coach them. There'll be a process of osmosis here. They'll just figure out how we do things. I've talked to folks who have hired in that situation, and they'll tell you that inevitably it did not work out. It actually created a bunch of problems. Where an organization's in a position where it can scale effectively is the next time that conversation is had, it's "Look at the skills of this person. "They're not a cultural fit.
"Let's move on to the next candidate," and when your team is having that conversation without you needing to be in the room, that's when you're onto something, and that's when you can truly scale.
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/jeff-weiner-on-establishing-a-culture-and-a-plan-for-scaling/how-does-hiring-change-as-the-business-scales
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Leadership Story / What are the unique lessons you have learned from being both
« on: February 25, 2018, 06:18:53 PM »What are the unique lessons you have learned from being both a consumer and enterprise company?
- One, if you can pull it off, it's fantastic, very high degree of difficulty because that's not one thing, it's two things. And the more "things" you try to do as a company, the higher the degree of difficulty. And it's probably exponential at some point in terms of each incremental thing you add to the company. It's just that many more things you need to communicate, that many more things people need to internalize and grok, that many more things people need to execute against. It just creates more and more room for error. So in a perfect world, your company would only produce one thing and it would do it with the smallest team possible and it's just easier.
It's just not realistic if you're going to continue to scale. So things have changed. It doesn't require the same number of resources, the same amount of capital to achieve certain scale. It doesn't require the same portfolio approach to achieve certain kinds of scale by virtue of technologies, by virtue of how global the world has become and interconnected. But if you're going to try to do more than one thing, it goes back to knowing who you are, what you're trying to accomplish.
And that starts with your narrative. We are the stories that we tell. So storytelling is the oldest known form of communication. Right? Cave drawings. And that's just innate. It's just part of who we are as human beings. And we communicate through narrative. So your mission, your vision, your strategy, your value prop, your culture, your values, that's an organization's narrative. And you need to define that and codify it and reinforce it.
And one of the most important things that we've reinforced from very early on recognizing that we are trying something with a higher degree of difficulty, an enterprise business built on top of a consumer web platform, is our most important value. We have six values. And the first value is that our members come first. And when you have an enterprise culture, an enterprise sales culture, that would not normally be the case, that your members come first or that it's some consumer web platform comes first. What would come first is the next sale and hitting quota and results.
And results matter to us. It's an important part of our culture, and demanding excellence is one of our most important values. But it starts with members first because we're unable to execute against any of our enterprise business lines if we don't have a flourishing, member-driven ecosystem. So our members come first. And the only way we've been able to pull off this idea of building enterprise businesses on top of a consumer web platform is because the person that runs those enterprise sales forces, thousands of people, recognizes that our members come first.
And he is one of the most steadfast leaders of the company when it comes to manifesting culture and values. And trust me, he is not just talking the talk. He manifests it in quite literally everything that he does. He models the behavior constantly to the point it's sometimes you're just like, "Really?" But over time, you start to recognize and appreciate how strong a competitive advantage you can build as a result of that. And his name is Mike Gamson.
And as Mike likes to say, he's not hiring salespeople or sales leaders. He's hiring businesspeople and business leaders. And he's not just saying it. He's actually doing it. And that's one of the reasons we've been able to pull that off. It's still very challenging as you know.
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/jeff-weiner-on-establishing-a-culture-and-a-plan-for-scaling/what-are-the-unique-lessons-you-have-learned-from-being-both-a-consumer-and-enterprise-company