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Falling Walls Kiev 2016Startup Incubators and Corporations: a Symbiosis
Vladyslav KurmazConsultant Software Engineer2016/09/29
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Corporation: beyond good & evil
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•Company should evolve to be successful • They are monolithic, hierarchical, inert•Buying start-up is expensive or/and risky
Why (they need innovations)
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Ideas are in the air
•99% - many people already thought about it•90% - product is under construction•80% - solution is available on the market
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Brilliant idea and Diamond solution
Don't even try to sell bottled water to fish underwater
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Innovation: Everything is a remix
Copy CombineTransform
Creativity is the summary of many inputs
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Copy
• Idea costs ’nothing’ (or 1$)• Identify predecessors, their weak and strong points• List potential strategic and tactics issues
No one starts out original. We cannot create anything new until we have a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding in our line of work. Copying is how we learn
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Transform
• Identify point(s) to improve•Generate variants
Taking an idea and creating variations. Major advances are usually not original ideas, but the breaking point in a long history of progress by many different individuals
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Combine
•Mix an ideas
The most dramatic results happen when various ideas are combined together. By connecting ideas together, creative leaps can be made
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Team
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Key elements
•Standalone team
•Monitor IT trends (research, whitepapers)•Generate ideas (presentations)•Develop PoCs/MVP (up-and-running solutions)
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Challenges
• Senior+ (>10000h)• Experience in more than 2 business domains• Proactive• ~6 months, ~30 interviews to find one engineer
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Stats
• ~20 team members• < 5% of PoCs become new products or develop valuable features• ~1-2 year(s) from idea to production•>10 road-mapped ideas per year• 1 new product per year
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Idea-as-a-Service
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CAC – Cloud Applications ControlControl SaaS features with standard permissions mechanism
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VaaS: Vehicle-as-a-Service
• BYOD : Bring-Your-Own-Device
• Virtualization, Samsung KNOX
• Games/Streaming• Provisioning, Mobile
Device Management, High availability, etc.
• IoT
Copy CombineTransform• SYV : Share-Your-Vehicle
(Uber)• Car driver detection,
Safety, Robustness• New genres• Software updates, Apps
market (Tesla), Software Personalization
• Connected cars (Nokia)
• Next Big Thing?• …
TaaS: Transportation-as-a-Service
