After sitting down with 50 founders, investors, researchers, and activists, we identified three major patterns as we connect the dots: 1. Founders dilemma in data, digital, taboo Data data data! Founders generally face a lack of consumer data and research data. Though more and more legacy organizations such as FemTech Insider, FemTech Analytics and rising... Continue Reading →
Women's health has historically been one of the most underdeveloped healthcare sectors analyzed by research and technology. The first women's health-focused organization, American Birth Control League (now Planned Parenthood), was founded in 1921. However, women are still not getting the proper solutions for their health issues. American Birth Control League from Studies in Feminist Activism Blog... Continue Reading →
It was a wet, quiet Thursday evening in the middle of May in Fontainebleau. It had been a long week already, and with our partners busy with their respective commitments, Juan Camilo and I decided to crack open a bottle of red and reflect on the past week and plan some activities and travel for the... Continue Reading →
We first noticed marketplace aggregators through the lens of ETA, or entrepreneurship through acquisition. Watching this new type of consumer group emerge at rocket speed since last spring, we observed that many of the investing principles were similar to the strategies employed by search funds. In one critical way, the ecosystems also appeared similar: as... Continue Reading →
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear entrepreneurship? For us, like many of you, it was the image of two or three guys in their twenties or thirties working on a tech startup in their garage. Often portrayed as daring, risk-takers and visionaries by Hollywood, entrepreneurs build businesses that transform... Continue Reading →
In this article, Tech Couture will cover some of the key trends that are shaping the fashion industry. Exploring these trends was a particularly interesting and rewarding exercise as the industry has traditionally been a laggard when it came to technological adoption, but is slowly waking up to the importance of providing a better experience... Continue Reading →
At INSEAD, we learn how business can be used as a “Force for Good”. With a strong interest in entrepreneurship and a dream to start-up ourselves someday, my classmate, Gijs Wilbers, and I, Manasvi Srivastava, wanted to discover how entrepreneurs are using technology, particularly in the financial world, to disrupt the industry and positively impact... Continue Reading →
1 Validation Healthcare innovations constantly validate themselves across different parameters, not only from a clinical and patient standpoint (i.e., research and development), but also from payer and provider and feedback from the healthcare system more broadly (i.e., commercial). 1.1 What are the main validation activities? Traditionally, we define validation as means for an innovator to... Continue Reading →
Firstly, we explored the different sources of innovation and who was the "inventor" of the scientific innovation or solution on which the startup is based. We identified three main sources of innovation: Scientists in a lab, Medical Doctors (MD) providing care and other problem solvers - often patient driven or patient family driven. Based on... Continue Reading →
Fast fashion, with its overproduction and waste, opaque supply chains, and exploitation of human rights and environmental laws, was leading the growth of the fashion industry in the last two decades. But things have been changing, and the pandemic has accelerated a re-think. There has been growth of slow fashion, and consumers have become more... Continue Reading →
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