Introduction

What do Google, the Nobel Prize laureate World Food Programme, Ford, Microsoft, the Chilean government, the city of Tulsa, the Vatican, the Canadian city of Calgary, BMW, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and a 100-year-old cement corporation all have in common?

They all work with startups.

Moore’s Law seems to apply to startups as well as semiconductors: the number of new startups continues to increase while the cost to launch a startup has plummeted. Startups are growing, and startup ecosystems are thriving.

Meanwhile, the average length of time for a corporation to remain on the S&P 500 Index has steadily declined. Entire regions and countries are trying to reinvent themselves in the face of global economic changes. ...

Get Startup Program Design: A Practical Guide for Creating Accelerators and Incubators at Any Organization now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.