April 23, 2024
The Illusion of Innovation (and Escaping the Efficiency Trap)

Embracing deliberate inefficiency and running fast, cheap, and weird experiments enable corporations to unlock sustainable growth and transformation.

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Accelerated Assumption Testing's Impact on Venture Building

September 16, 2024

Ironically, corporations looking to build startups must act like startups to do so: conduct fast, cheap experiments to test and validate assumptions.

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How Tech Startups Can Positively Impact the Retail Value Chain

September 16, 2024

Find out how Fieldbook Studio is addressing critical technology gaps and opportunities by creating new, novel solutions across the retail value chain.

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Founder Q&A: Insights from Revisto CEO Ferry Tamtoro

September 5, 2024

Ferry explains why he joined the startup, co-created with a Top-5 Pharma, and how the platform streamlines Medical, Legal, & Regulatory (MLR) reviews.

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Nailing Your Startup Timing: Critical to Your Company’s Success

September 3, 2024

What does it mean to get launch timing "right"? And how can startup founders ensure they bring their new companies to market at the optimal moment?

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Future-Proofing Your Business with Corporate Venture Building

August 26, 2024

'Black-swan' events like the global pandemic offer large-scale organizations a silver lining: the chance to create startups that solve big problems.

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Strategic Advisory Council Spotlight: Dr. Patrick McGill

August 22, 2024

Community Health Network EVP, CTO Patrick McGill, MD, shares why he's excited to offer helpful business insights with our HealthTech startup founders.

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Founder Q&A: Insights from Chuck CEO Todd Thomas

August 15, 2024

Chuck CEO Todd Thomas explains how Woodchuck.AI will revolutionize the energy industry and help construction firms meet their sustainability goals.

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The Flywheel Effect from Building Startups with SSBCI Funding

August 15, 2024

Learn how Arkansas built Fieldbook Studio, the first U.S. Treasury-approved venture studio, with SSBCI funding — and how other states can do the same.

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Creating Climate-Smart Tech Across the AgriFood Value Chain

July 31, 2024

Purdue University's Lourival Monaco details how DIAL Ventures is working to help incentivize farmers to adopt regenerative agriculture practices.

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The Critical Role of Customer Discovery in Startup Creation

July 31, 2024

Learn how speaking directly with the target audience for your prospective tech startup can help you validate (or invalidate) your business concept.

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Visual Identity as an Advantage for Early-Stage Startups

July 17, 2024

Crafting a compelling and memorable visual identity for partners' startups is just one form of advantage we offer them and portfolio company founders.

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Founder Q&A: Insights from Goldie Health CEO Chris Martin

July 12, 2024

The Goldie Health founder explains how the tech helps post-overdose response teams, EMS, and case managers respond to those in acute opioid crisis.

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Why Community Investment Is Worthwhile for Corporations and VCs

July 3, 2024

Academic and business leaders shared their insights on the value of ongoing community investment, at a recent Aspen Institute event hosted at our HQ.

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Technology's Role in Running More Effective Board Meetings

June 20, 2024

Zeck CEO and Co-founder Robert Wolfe details why he wanted to completely reimagine board meetings and what the AI-powered platform offers executives.

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Why Venture Capital Firms Should Lean Into Startup Building

June 12, 2024

It's not just corporations, universities, state governments, and non-profits creating new companies. Now, VCs are also getting into venture building.

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Why We Introduced Our Alloy Venture-Building Roundtable

May 29, 2024

Discover what our Venture-Building Roundtable offers corporate and university leaders, and what to expect at the next edition taking place at Alloy.

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External Venture Building: Ideal for Scaled Organizations

May 21, 2024

Find out why launching new startups that are separate from your organization's core business is best done with an outside venture-building partner.

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LP Spotlight: Insights from Purdue Gold & Black Agri-Food Fund Investors

May 13, 2024

Limited partners who invested in the fund share why they're excited to help launch new AgTech companies that positively impact the AgriFood industry.

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Unlocking the Power of Market Sizing: From Skepticism to Strategy

May 9, 2024

Identifying the TAM, SAM, and SOM for your tech startup early on in venture building is essential to capably forecast its near- and long-term success.

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How the AgriFood Industry Is Approaching Innovation Today

May 6, 2024

Discover key takeaways from our roundtable chat at DIAL Ventures' Future of Agrifood summit with executives from agriculture-centric organizations.

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The Illusion of Innovation (and Escaping the Efficiency Trap)

April 23, 2024

Embracing deliberate inefficiency and running fast, cheap, and weird experiments enable corporations to unlock sustainable growth and transformation.

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Venture Creation: The 4th Leg of the Corporate Strategy Stool

April 19, 2024

Historically, "build, buy, or partner" has been the go-to innovation framework for corporations. But now, there's another viable innovation avenue.

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Using the Venture Studio Model at Your University: A Guide

April 9, 2024

Learn why administrators and entrepreneurship center directors at universities nationwide are looking into building venture studios at their schools.

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Why Corporations Should Embrace the Open Innovation Model

April 1, 2024

An open innovation ecosystem that includes an external venture-building partner is invaluable for large enterprises looking to launch new companies.

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DIAL Ventures Launches First-of-Its-Kind AgTech Platform

March 28, 2024

Make Hay, a first-of-its-kind MarTech platform, enables brands to share farmers' authentic stories and educate consumers about their food's origin.

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AI in Pharma: The Growing Number of Pharmaceutical Use Cases

March 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence offers a powerful catalyst for pharma companies, as it enables innovation beyond drug discovery and into broader operations.

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How AI Innovations Impact Business Creation and Growth Today

March 18, 2024

Acknowledging AI's growing impact on business success for startups and established enterprises is one thing. Knowing how to leverage AI is another.

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Transforming Your University Into an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

March 14, 2024

Learn how venture studio leaders at Notre Dame, UNC, and Purdue are commercializing startup ideas and solving big problems through company creation.

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How Emerging Climate Technology Ventures Will Impact Us All

March 12, 2024

Sustainability experts discuss how ClimateTech investments in industries ranging from agriculture and energy to transportation will continue to grow.

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Why Corporate Innovation Programs Fail (and How to Succeed)

March 5, 2024

Corporations can avoid engaging in an Illusion of Innovation and make meaningful progress on initiatives with buy-in, budget, and the right partners.

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Why Building Highly Successful Businesses That Endure Matters

March 4, 2024

Speaking at Alloy 2023, High Alpha Innovation CEO Elliott Parker explained what it takes to build resilient, long-lasting, transformative companies.

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Notre Dame and High Alpha Innovation Unveil Venture Studio Impact Fund

December 11, 2023

The 1842 Fund will facilitate the creation of new startups through the 1842 Studio that tie into the University of Notre Dame's mission and vision.

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ClimateTech: Empowering Startups to Spark Energy Innovation

October 27, 2023

Our recent Energy Summit was a conduit to build new companies that disrupt traditional energy supply chains through new climate technology ventures.

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Why Now Is (Counterintuitively) the Best Time to Launch A Venture Studio

July 12, 2023

The economic headwinds we've faced in the last few years are, ironically, creating ripe conditions for scaled organizations to launch venture studios.

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Finding the Right Early-Stage Startup Founder: A Guide

June 21, 2023

Once we identify problems to solve with partners through startup creation, we look for the ideal founding team best suited to build and scale NewCos.

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Unlocking Advantage with Corporate-Startup Partnerships

May 30, 2023

Corporations are increasingly looking to enable transformative growth through startup partnerships — and it's a trend that shows no signs of slowing.

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Determining Your Corporation's Venture-Building Readiness

January 19, 2023

Before we build companies with partners, we help them determine if they have the necessary buy-in, resources, and infrastructure to create startups.

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How We Help Organizations Build Advantaged Startups at Scale

July 8, 2022

We have developed a proven, structured process to quickly and creatively design advantaged startups.

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How Universities Can Unlock Innovation and Launch New Startups

June 13, 2022

Discover the "fuel," "oxygen," and "heat that are needed to help universities transform into entrepreneurial ecosystems that build startups at scale.

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Low-Hanging Innovation: Can You Run Out of Startup Ideas?

November 29, 2021

Empowering creators, innovators, and problem-solvers to make new connections enables them to unlock transformative venture-building opportunities.

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Your Selassian Moment: Early Indicators of Institutional Challenge

November 11, 2021

Everyone wants to innovate but nobody wants to change. What can history tell us? Learn how corporations can unlock transformation to build companies.

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Accounting Matters When Innovating from the Balance Sheet

July 15, 2021

Getting finance, tax, legal, and accounting involved early in your venture-building journey can help you avoid surprises that could derail your work.

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Venture Studio U: Embracing Startup Creation on Campus

July 1, 2021

On top of commercializing ideas generated on campus, universities are creating venture studios with external partners to explore other startup ideas.

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Funding Transformative Innovation from the Balance Sheet

April 30, 2021

Balance sheet capital, with a focus on the magnitude of correctness, not frequency, and appropriate governance enables venture building at scale.

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The Disruptive Voice Podcast: Remodeling Venture Capital

January 14, 2021

High Alpha Innovation CEO Elliott Parker joined The Disruptive Voice podcast for a wide-ranging chat on the future of innovation and venture capital.

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Innovating in Times of Uncertainty: A Path to Growth

October 28, 2020

In downturns and times of disruption, reducing spend is tempting. Instead, though, corporate leaders should invest in innovation during these periods.

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Rich vs. King: The Corporate Founder's Innovation Dilemma

October 20, 2020

External venture building can deliver ROI closer to that of CVC investments and give corporations more influence over a startup's strategic direction.

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Fragility, Resilience, and Whatever Else is Left

August 5, 2020

Corporations must conduct low-cost innovation experiments at scale and learn quickly without imperiling the whole, if they hope to survive long term.

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Why We Created High Alpha Innovation

May 21, 2020

We make a promise to the organizations we partner with that we can help them achieve tangible innovation through systematic, rapid startup creation.

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Why We Sprint: Insights Into Our Venture-Building Process

May 8, 2020

Sprint Week is our forcing function for company creation. See what goes into this process, during which we craft business models for startup concepts.

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Why Venture Studios Are the Best Option for Startup Creation

April 28, 2020

High Alpha Innovation CEO Elliott Parker and High Alpha Co-founder and Partner Kristian Andersen discuss the benefits of the venture studio model.

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Building for Resilience: How to Build Long-Lasting Companies

January 31, 2020

Startups are the economy's equivalent of 'controlled burns,' and corporations can leverage startups' strengths and capabilities to build resilience. 

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