Another throwback to our latest Venture Circle event hosted together with the great folks of REHAU New Ventures in the beautiful Botanical Gardens of Munich-Nymphenburg. The Venture Circle is our recurring get-together for decision-makers in European corporate venture building. The primary goal is an open, trusting exchange at C & VP level on specific venture building challenges, such as best practices in linking ventures to the respective corporate parent or dealing with the currently omnipresent budget cuts. If you are a decision-maker in corporate venture building and would like to be part of the next Venture Circle, please contact us. We would like to thank REHAU New Ventures (Matthias Hille) for the successful event in Munich and look forward to continuing our collaboration. Also, many thanks to all participants - see you at the next edition after the summer!
📅 Event Recap! 📅 It's already over a month ago since GoGroup. and REHAU New Ventures held an incredible and intensive event with experts from corporate venture building from all over Europe. The #VentureCircle! We are still have follow-up discussions with other participants, internally and learning and adapting strategic topics. During the event we discussed the challenges and especially the opportunities with corporate venture building. Here are some of our key takeaways: 👉 Corporate Venture Building is well established as the most entreprenuerial innovation vehicle for business building and can be independent but also a good addition towards CVC and Venture Clienting. CVB can be harder but has also much higher strategic potential and benefits. 👉 Corporates have plenty of assets to bring into ventures and thus create unfair advantages. These assets have strings attached and have to be used wisely to get the full power. Most assets have a clear timeline when they provide the biggest advantage and shouldn't be used too early or too late 👉 Focus and flexibility is key. Corporate rules, processes but also trying to do too much at the same time is often a big challenge. Focus on the really relevant things to proof Product-Market-Fit within the venture and create as much flexibility outside of corporate processes as the venture building unit. Our most important discussion point: 🚀 Only when you bring together experienced experts with extremly motivated entrepreneurs on a personal level you find the unfair advantage for your ventures from corporate assets. Thanks to @GoGroup and especially Dr. Felix Lau for the initiative and we are already looking forward to the next #Venture Circle. If you are interested in the format feel free to contact Matthias Hille or Dr. Felix Lau #Innovation, #CorporateVentures, #Entrepreneurship, #ScaleUp, #VentureBuilding, #StartupEcosystem Dr. Felix Lau, Nico Weiler, Sascha Weiler, Olivia Jaron, Gleb Tritus, Tom Schneider, Sven Siering, Christopher McLachlan, Nils Blume, Dr. Kerim Galal, Dirk Schlesinger, Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc, Frank Merwerth, Daniel Hofmann, Florian Meßner-Schmitt, Andras Fischer, Dávid Széles, Timo Raulf, Matthias Hille,