All venture studio thought leadership articles

Thought Leadership Three Innovation Lessons Learned from Launching Over 100 Digital Ventures
November 7, 2022 | By Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner, U+
As part of our ongoing venture studios and builders series, Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner of U+, shares lessons he and U+ have learned from building over 100 successful digital ventures. He dives into problem solving, business strategy, and making assumptions.
Thought Leadership How Corporations Can Innovate at Startup Speed
October 28, 2022
Linda Yates, CEO and Founder of Mach49, shares an excerpt from her upcoming book, The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed. She says, “Here’s the truth. You can succeed against clever new startups and beat them at their own game,” and shares other helpful insights...
Thought Leadership Building a Startup to Rapidly Solve Difficult Business Problems
September 9, 2022
Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation, shares how the venture studio built amplio, a cloud-based supply chain software that helps leaders detect problems before they occur, with Koch Industries. Parker shares how the process happened, and why building external ventures can be valuable for corporations.
Thought Leadership Start With People: Building Digital Ventures the U+ Way
September 8, 2022
Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner at U+, explains how the firm focuses building its ventures around people, not products. He explains how the firm uses stage-relevant teams to make venture building easier for its clients. Sheppard will also join us for a webcast this fall, as part of our venture studio...
Thought Leadership Is Your Corporation Ready to Build Startups?
August 22, 2022
“While external building is increasingly becoming a standard tool in the corporate innovation toolkit, for many organizations, external building is still new,” writes Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation. In this piece, Parker explains the support, access, and strategy corporates need to have in place before they’re ready to...
Thought Leadership How U+ Helped Bridgestone Solve a Pandemic-Era Problem
August 17, 2022
U+, a venture builder, helped Bridgestone Corporation to build Firestone Direct, a service that sends a mechanic straight to customers or workplaces. As part of our venture studios series, Sean Sheppard, Managing Director at U+, contributed this case study to show the impact a studio can have on a corporation.
Thought Leadership Build, Buy, Partner, Invest… Spin-out? How Venture Studios Help Create Portfolios and Optionality
August 2, 2022
As part of our venture studios series, Ben Yoskovitz, Founding Partner at Highline Beta, shared his thoughts on why corporates might partner with a venture studio, the best way to do it, and what sets Highline Beta apart from other venture studios and builders.
Thought Leadership How Highline Beta’s Venture Studio and American Family Built a New Startup Together
July 25, 2022
As part of our exploration of the venture studio landscape, Marcus Daniels, Founding Partner & CEO of Highline Beta, shares the story of a successful partnership between the studio and Fortune 500 insurance company, American Family Insurance.