Intrapreneur Stories
By Bundl
With Intrapreneur Stories, we want to demystify this role. Hear the stories, learnings, tips and advice from experienced intrapreneurs, and maybe you’ll be inspired to set out on your own adventure.
Intrapreneur StoriesAug 02, 2019
Guy Claesen — The symbiotic relationship between startups and corporations
Our guest today is serial venture builder and former CEO of eXpanded Media Guy Claesen. We learned all about how eXpanded Media grew from a small internet tech unit within Ubizen (an internet security corporation), to a fully functional and independent company. You’ll also get some great insights on how startups in the ’90s were already changing the way we think of innovation. You don’t want to miss it!
Click here to learn more about eXpanded Media, a corporate startup within Ubizen.
Jochem Baars — Cutting through the red tape of large organizations
Jochem Baars is the intrapreneur behind Tellow, a bookkeeping app for freelancers created at Rabobank. Baars was able to conceptualize, prototype and launch the first MVP in less than 1 year. An impressive feat, if you consider the bureaucracy and corporate walls within what is the 2nd largest bank in The Netherlands.
In this episode if Intrapreneur Stories, Jochem Baars takes us through his journey at Rabobank and shares invaluable tips for corporate innovators looking to cut through the red tape at large organizations.
William de Vos — building a new parcel delivery service in the emerging sharing economy: Parcify by Bpost
Our guest William De Vos was Parcify's first ever employee before it was acquired by bpost. Get to know how it became a corporate startup and learn about William’s intrapreneurial journey!
#12 Hugo Pinto: Digital Transformation through Data Monetization: Telefonica Smart Steps
While working at Telefonica Digital, Hugo grew fascinated about the data monetisation business. He then realised that the patterns of movements and density of people have tremendous impact in terms of transportation, and that Telefonica is in pole position to take action by leveraging their existing assets.
Telefonica Smart Steps is a range of solutions to extract and use key insights to empower data-driven decisions for business. The corporate venture won Wired's Best New Corporate Venture Award in 2013, for the most disruptive product created in a large corporate organisation.
Episode 12 wraps up this year's Intrapreneur Stories. But we're not done with interviewing entrepreneurial minds yet! We'll be back in 2019 with a fresh set of content to inspire you to create your next venture.
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#11 Kenny Henderyckx: Why we’re investing in free-roam VR as a Telco
Launched on May 2018, The Park is a pioneering entertainment venue that means to introduce new technologies, such as free-roam virtual reality, to the general public. This venture started in one of the recurrent innovation tracks within Telenet, one of the biggest Telcos in Belgium, who was quick to spot the untaped potential to integrate such technologies with the current entertainment mediums that Telenet already provides, such as TV shows and movies. The Park is still at its early stages, but the first venue is already a big success in the city of Antwerp.
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#10 Paul Ellingstad: The Social Responsibility of Corporations
When he met Martin Burt, founder of Fundación Paraguaya, Paul knew that Hewlett Packard could do much more for these people. Together, they set on a journey to fight world poverty.
They developed a system that allows the foundation’s workers to gather a wide range of information in a fast, integrated and interactive way, using pictures, geotagging and analytics. HP's Visual Survey Platform app saves several hours to the volunteers, and helps to pinpoint every family’s specific needs and best solutions.In the end, this joined venture turned out to be more than just a particular social enterprise. It became a commercial solution for some of HP’s largest clients.
#9 Yulia Savitskaya: Building a $2M Revenue Business in Leadership Development
This meant diving deep into the training processes and challenging the way people within the company were used to sharing and absorbing knowledge.
With a very clear vision from the company's founder, and a lot of flexibility in resources, Yulia’s successful venture ended up becoming a profitable stand alone business that is making a real impact on people’s lives.
In this interview, Yulia shares her passion for the project and explains how that very same drive was a turning point for her success.
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#8 Jason Stamm: A business model for sustainability in the beer industry
Backed by AbInBev’s ZX Ventures, this corporate venture is fighting one of the biggest forms of waste in the traditional brewing industry. Jason takes us through his journey of discovery, investigation and stubbornness for creating a pioneering business model based on the lean startup methodology.
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#7 Gib Bulloch: Can Social Intrapreneurship Add Value to your Business?
In this interview, Gib tells us about his journey of self-discovery, and how he provided purpose to so many of his colleagues by allowing them to embark on this social intrapreneurship journey with him, and how he managed to get Accenture on-board with him, and manage resources and expectations while running a non-profit within a very business-driven organisation.
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#6 Isabel do Vale: Customers Kept Us Going in a New Market
Isabel takes us through this journey of creating a customer-faced product in a B2B environment. Her colleagues are mostly scientists who weren't used to look at their flowers from a client's perspective. They had to learn to ask different questions, and to explore different areas of horticulture to create plants that are accessible to a wider audience. On the other hand, Isabel had to learn that biology has its own limitations, and sometimes it's just impossible to create the products your clients crave for.
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Special Episode: Introducing Afonso!
Afonso is a venture builder with quite an interesting track record working with corporations, like Linkedin and Adidas.
A citizen of the world, Afonso's passport is Portuguese, but he lived in several corners of the world (8 different countries, to be exact), from Brazil to the UK, to Belgium!
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#5 Seppe Van Sever: Building startups outside the corporate walls — the first steps & structure
Setting up such an ambitious project is still an ongoing process. “We see everybody is learning: we are learning, EDF Luminus is learning, on how to do it quicker and better.” But the learning curve is steep and even though the path might be uncertain, it is highly rewarding.
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#4 Gil Nimmegeers: The Studio — A Startup-Factory to White-Label Existing Corporate Assets
On this episode of Intrapreneur Stories, we sit together with Gil Nimmegeers, Innovation Manager at The Studio.
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#3 Christopher Waldner: Intrapreneurship VS Entrepreneurship, The Dilemma
On this episode of Intrapreneur Stories, he shares realistic insights of being an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur, how you can become one, and why you would choose one or the other. Christopher’s experience on both sides of the spectrum also provided him with an unique perspective on how venture builders and corporations should work together.
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#2 Pieter Dewulf: How to tackle the P2P market & the risks of being an intrapreneur
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#1 Stijn Van Avermaet: From B2B to B2C
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TEASER #1 Stijn Van Avermaet — From B2B to B2C
What does a company do when a product isn’t reaching its full potential via their traditional B2B2C channels? See how intrapreneur Stijn Van Avermaet, takes Orgalux, one of Van Hoecke’s branches, on the journey to create the company’s first direct-to-market approach.
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