Cook your Startup: Business innovation through open collaboration

"Cook your Startup" : is a half day training on how open innovation can make your startup a success story.

What does open innovation mean exactly? It is a term defined by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.

It is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas in their strategy through crowd-sourcing. No matter what your project is about, you will always have to deal with an ecosystem of actors, that can profoundly affect the outcome of your efforts.

Customers, beneficiaries, partners, friends, mentors, suppliers, and the other stakeholders that are key to help you building a product or service that people might want to use. We will teach you how to collaborate with these actors and work together with them in the most effective way, in order to make your activity more sustainable. To make it bullet proof. The end result is a dynamic crowdsourcing session to help you structure your ideas in a clear way, and validate your key assumptions through open feedback. The two mentors will facilitate participation and collaboration during the entire event, while offering their expertise to help you saving weeks in the development of your startup.

You will leave this workshop with a good understanding of how to exploit open-source collaboration to your benefit, a refined business strategy and a schedule of short-term actions to validate your ideas. The event will be in English and has a limited number of 40 participants.

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SPEAKERS

Emanuele Musa: startup trainer e entrepreneur.

Emanuele is an international startup trainer, Founder & CEO at Babele. A very analytical individual with an engineering and business background as well as proven experience in consulting, data analysis and business modeling. Previous work experience includes: Program management for Procter & Gamble in Paris, financial analysis at the Fund Manager "AE Global Investment Solutions ltd" in London, strategic analysis at Bombardier Transportation in Brussels, strategy consulting at Advention Business Partners in Paris and management consulting for IBM Global Business Services in Paris.

Ruxandra Creosteanu: startup trainer e entrepreneur.

Ruxandra is cofounder at Babele and startup consultants. She graduated in International Management at the European School of Management ESCP (Paris - London - Berlin). Highly numerate, has strong analytical background and attitude for proactive problem solving. Ruxandra speaks fluently 5 languages further compounded by excellent communication and presentation skills. Previous work experience includes: director for Carrefour and manager consultant within the sustainability team at Deloitte.