Team Start-up Mates - Lien Nguyen, Shwetali Sinkar, Hillary Yee Backstory Team Start-up Mates was very intrigued when they first heard about this āspecialā summer start-up tour in Australia this year. Western Australia (WA) would be one of the places far from the top of our list when we think about bustling start-up scenes in... Continue Reading →
Team Quokka: Ian Yamaguchi and Matt Dodd Forming a plan Matt and Ian have been mates since the start of INSEAD and both share an interest in tech and entrepreneurship. When we heard about SSUP early in the course, we were keen to get involved. While exploring options for our trip, a newly minted program... Continue Reading →
By Nancy Li 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... Continue Reading →
By Kelly An 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... 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 āForce for Goodā. 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 →
INSEAD SUMMER STARTUP TOUR 