In-Between Time from Prehype

In this episode, prehype's managing partner Henrik Werdelin discuss the question that most innovation teams fail to answer, namely; What business are we actually in. He is joined by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg who is the co-author of Innovation as Usual, a Harvard Business Review Press book on the art of driving innovation in regular organizations. Thomas has worked with managers in nearly all parts...

Increasingly larger companies are looking to the startup space to fast track access to talent, markeds, technology or data. Often this is done by setting up a corporate venture unit. In todays podcast, prehype partners Stacey Seltzer, Stuart Willson and Henrik Werdelin discuss some of the best practices of corporate VC based on their experience managing programs for various fortune 500s. For more...

The first 200 days of a startup is where you create the DNA of the company for many years to come. Culture, initial tech decision, first hires, and early customers’ feedback are the elements that either make or break a company. In this episode, we look back at the last 200 days of building the startup Umi. Kitchen. The podcast is a 'best of' a podcast series that Henrik Werdelin did for Forbes tha...

"Desktop is the new newspaper." A year ago Dow Jones / The Wall Street Journal asked their Chief Innovation Officer Edward Roussel to set up a new innovation unit. In this podcast he explains what he has learned over the past year - and gives key lessons on what he is glad he did - and what he would redo if he could. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin More info on Edward: twitter.com/edwardrou...

In grad school, Jeff Raider started a little eyeglasses company called Warby Parker. Less than three years later, he found himself at the helm of a men's shaving startup - and a razor blade manufacturing plant in Germany. In this episode, get in Jeff's mind as he talks about vertical integration in the startup world, what it's like to run two (insanely successful)companies with your best friends a...

Things get philosophical this week as we explore the nuances of the "hidden" mobile interface with Aaron Harris - all around good guy, founder of Tutorspree, partner at Y Combinator, and champion of the digital sabbath. Listen to Aaron's thoughts on chat as the native mobile interface, the obsolescence of beautiful design, and how the bar for speed and convenience keeps getting higher. P...

Michael specializes in relationship design for founders, authors, and speakers interested in playing a bigger game. He works with people to leverage their existing networks for the purpose of getting higher paid engagements, speaking opportunities, and interviews. We sat down to talk about why networking is considered a bad word and what are tools you can use to become a connector rather than a ne...

Bjarke Ingels is one of the world's leading architect. With his team at BIG he is the creative mind behind many iconic buildings like the new Google Plex and the World Trade Center 2 tower in New York. He has recently been more active in tech angel investing having placing bets on companies like ManagedByQ.com and Andco. (joinand.co) We sat down to talk about how tech has stolen a lot of their ter...

Emmanuel Seuge is quietly pioneering how big companies can use venture investments to push innovation within a large org. Over the past three years, his team has invested in companies ranging from Spotify to Endomondo to gain insight, access and innovation experience from entrepreneurs. We sat down with him in LA to pick his brain about what he has learned while making this program, why young tale...

According to Forbes BarkBox is one of the leading brands on Instagram so try to some easy tricks from Val who manages that Bark & Co's influencer network of very famous online dogs called BarkPack. This community of over 400 famous dogs is now one of BarkBox biggest sales channel and a good example how an innovative use of social media can make a measurable business impact. Produced by: Henrik...

We talk to the always insightful and kind Beth Comstock (GE's CMO)about how big companies can work with startups and how she is making a company with over 300.000 people more entrepreneurial. Hear also what founders can learn about scaling from corporations - and why Beth is hosting ancient philosophy discussion dinners. Recorded in LA at the #Pttow Summit. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin. More info...

We talk to Harvard Business Press author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg about tricks for becoming more creative, on how much risk to take, tips for selling ideas to your boss and the dangers of the Hawaii shirt syndrome. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin. Read the whole transcript and summery here: http://wp.me/pXSFV-Ji More info on: Prehype: prehype.com Thomas: wedellsblog.com and his book 'Innovation as U...

We talk with health innovation expert Steven Dean about tricks entrepreneurs can learn from the latest in health, about bacteria in your gut and the best stories from NY Quantified Self Meetups. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin (slightly reduced audio quality...)