11. Short term focus vs patient capital
Internal or competition focus vs customer &
market opportunity focus
Top talent constrained vs attract & retain top
talent
short term vs long term
22. Short term focus vs patient capital
Internal or competition focus vs customer &
market opportunity focus
Top talent constrained vs train & retain top
talent
short term vs long term
26. Internal Teams:
Work autonomously to achieve an important goal.
Solve an internal problem / process
- Red Hat Performance and Ambassador, Citrix CSP
Improve an existing product or business
- Citrix Recapit
Explore a new potential growth area
- Citrix Mediflow
27. “Big Company” Benefits
Alumni return with new mindset & skillset
Foundation of innovation “muscle”
Immunity from disruption &
path to long term growth
28. Startups:
Equity free funding ( Grant)
($10k at start and up to 50k after 3 months)
Access to Innovators Program network
(Citrix, Redhat, HQ Raleigh, Investors, AWS credits etc)
Additional 3 month growth program, if selected.
32. 12 months of funding:
Key Benefit to innovators:
Startup mindset and skillset
Life and career changing experience
Key Benefit:
Customized onboarding at scale for 3 SaaS products
=> new awareness of tools to increase retention
Raleigh 2015: Hudson & Sujan
33. 12 months of funding:
Key Benefit to Carey:
Autonomy to drive growth with a small team
Life and career changing experience
Key Benefit:
Driving new growth with 1000’s of customer
Helping change how we develop current & future products
Santa Barbara 2015: Carey Caulfield