Inside Outside

In this interview Brian, Tom Samph, and Ajay Rajani talk about how designing quick, cheap, and smart experiments can revolutionize how startups validate their products and how corporations can validate the startup. With a framework of working within constraints and leveraging skills of experts who offer their time and knowledge, Nex.tt has helped many entrepreneurs take the first steps toward launching their innovative businesses. Ajay also shares the story of one of those entrepreneurs. To find out more and connect with the team at Nex.tt, go to Nex.tt, interact with them on twitter (@ajr771 and @twsamph), or follow them on medium.

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Derek Mauk is a senior innovation brand manager for Anheuser-Busch. In part 2 of his interview, he shares more about how the Best Damn Brewing Co. team was able to pull off such a multi-dimensional innovation effort in a relatively short amount of time, and how they dealt with the inevitable problems that arose along the way. We also get to hear about the diverse set of outlets ABI uses to engage with startups and solve problems without having to completely reinvent the wheel--or the beer. Connect with Derek at https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekmauk or on Twitter @AnheuserBusch. Find information and tickets for our innovation summit at theiosummit.com and tell us your story on Twitter @theiopodcast to get on the show. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Derek Mauk is the senior innovation brand manager at Anheuser-Busch. In part 1 of his interview with Brian, he talked about their new project, Best Damn Brewing Company. Derek laid out how the new line was built using design thinking, lean startup, and startup engagements, all of which we'll hear more about in part 2. Follow @theiosummit for updates on the Inside Outside Innovation Summit in June and get your ticket at theiosummit.com. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The first episode in a series that will feature former podcast guests who are speaking at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit, June 19th-21st in Lincoln, Nebraska. Michael Docherty is the author of the book “Collective Disruption: How Corporations & Startups Can Co-Create Transformative New Businesses” In this clip he gave us a glimpse of some of the incredible wisdom he’s picked up from dozens of interviews with corporate innovators and leaders. He also shared tips for the corporate innovator who’s on their own and how an event like our summit can be especially helpful for kick-starting something at their mid-sized to large organization.

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Ari Kern is the Community and Programs Manager with the Sprint Accelerator in Kansas City. In her insightful conversation with Brian she talked about how the design of Sprint’s physical accelerator space cultivates community and innovation and what exciting new shift Sprint is making in its next accelerator round. Listen carefully near the end for information about how you and your startup or Kansas City corporation can take part in Sprint’s new process. Applications are at sprintaccel.com and Ari encourages startups to apply ASAP.

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Today’s interview is with Ash Maurya, the author of Running Lean and his newest book Scaling Lean. With decades of experiences as an entrepreneur and almost 10 years as a lean coach, Ash talked about the product design mistake that almost all innovators make, and where he tells those innovators to go with their failed product and what to do with it. Ash also gave an outline of how his new book adds to the ongoing innovation conversation by giving practical tips and exercises for designing value metrics, among many other things. Connect with Ash at leanstack.com and find out more about the Inside Outside Innovation Summit at theiosummit.com

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Our team here at Inside Outside Innovation along with our sponsor, Econic, is very excited to announce the first Inside Outside Innovation Summit on June 19-21st. In what will be a premier conference in the Midwest focused on startup driven innovation, there's something for everyone. Corporations can match with startups, and startups can compete in a $100k pitch contest. Learn more and buy your ticket at theiosummit.com and talk to us on twitter @TheIOSummit For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

John Bungert is the Director of innovation at MetLife. He talked with Brian about the breadth of Metlife’s approach to innovation by partnering with a large network of venture capital firms as well as using internal campaigns to find and then implement innovative and relevant ideas on horizons 1, 2, and 3. He also talked about how working for small wins can help the most when you’re just getting started with a corporate innovation arm. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In today's epsiode from the Lean Startup Conference, Josh talked with Jonathan Bertfield. Jonathan has more than two decades of experience focusing on digital transformations in large enterprises and is an expert on implementing lean startup in these giant organizations. He discussed the importance of high level managers actually talking to real customers, the potential of the Objectives and Key Results tool for calculating incentives for internal innovators, and the thing that is more important than tools for a company to be successful at lean. Connect with him on twitter @Berters and at myspinnaker.co

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