Our Most-Read Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership Articles of 2020

As the year comes to a close, it’s time to look at our most-read thought leadership features of 2020. The articles below cover tech scouting, cultural transformation, navigating corporate venture capital, and more. They range across a wide array of topics - from inside accounts of a Japanese company’s successful US expansion to insights on Taiwan as the world’s next innovation capital. Before the new year starts, dive in, and get ready to be informed, encouraged, and inspired.

1. Why Taiwan Could Be the Next Innovation Capital of Asia

Although Taiwan has traditionally been a Research & Development-focused economy, it has also been able to successfully attract big tech corporations like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM over the past two decades, due to its tech talent pool. Learn why Taiwan could be the next permanent home where start-ups can develop successful and transcendent innovative technologies.

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2. Cinnamon AI's Successful Expansion to the US

Many startups quickly find out that international expansion is extremely challenging. We sat down with Yoshiaki Ieda, Co-founder & COO of Cinnamon AI, to talk about lessons learned from their successful expansion efforts to the United States.

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3. Navigating Corporate Venture Capital

In this article, HP Tech Ventures’ Partner Mitchell Weinstock shared some insights into corporate venture capital and all the lessons he learned from meeting thousands of entrepreneurs. A must-read for corporate executives looking to establish a CVC practice.

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4. Keys That Drive Successful Cultural Transformation

Microsoft’s Head of Learning & Development, Max Shkud, gives insights into the basics of cultural transformation, the vital role of HR in culture change, and the opportunities and challenges of working towards creating cultural change in the workplace.

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5. Tactics To Improve Your Tech Scouting

Keeping up with new technology is critical for business performance but it is also widely acknowledged that the majority of meaningful innovation comes from outside the organization. Here we share tactics on how companies can begin to look outwards and implement tech scouting best practices to search the market for external disruptive business opportunities.

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6. How COVID-19 Is Affecting the Global Startup Ecosystem

To better understand the impact of COVID-19 on startups globally, we hosted a webinar with our long-standing partner in Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). We invited Marvin Liao, a former partner at 500 Startups; Satoshi Miyagawa, CEO of Life is Tech USA; and Mitchell Weinstock, Partner at HP Tech Ventures, to discover how they were tackling the current crisis and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat.

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Apart from the thought-leadership pieces on innovation and entrepreneurship that we publish, we also wanted to announce our upcoming book on International Expansion.

Based on interviews with top executives who led scaling strategies for some of the fastest-growing companies in the world, this book will share our newly developed Global Market Expansion Framework, showcasing how entrepreneurs across the globe are rapidly testing to determine whether or not to expand into new markets with limited resources. 

The book is slated to be published in 2021 so watch out for it.