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addlight makes the introduction. Then comes the work.
Japan has plenty of promising startups and powerful corporations. addlight works on the awkward part: getting them to build a business together.
Stanley Bergman and the summer-camp theory of business
Before he led Henry Schein for more than 35 years, Stanley Bergman learned commerce in a family shop and leadership at summer camp. His long career asks a practical question: how do you keep everyone in the game?
01Booster puts corporate ideas on a different clock
A fresh-cheese venture reveals how the Tokyo business creation partner helps corporate employees reach customers sooner. Its method starts with changing the conditions in which people work.
Liga Ventures and the art of getting past the handshake
A startup introduction is easy. Liga Ventures has built a business around the harder part: helping large companies turn that introduction into something customers can actually use.
Kickstart Innovation gets startups to the other side of the corporate door
A stalled pitch, a persistent insider and a deal that finally stuck: the Swiss company’s real business is helping startups find someone ready to put their technology to work.
Imagine Creativity Center puts the brainstorm on a train
The Barcelona-Silicon Valley innovation company turns corporate challenges into working trips, prototypes and pitches. Its real test begins when the dreamers go home.
ignore gravity wants your next big idea to survive the workshop
The Berlin consultancy puts executives, founders and unlikely collaborators to work together. From a Jägermeister test kitchen to women’s startup programs, its real subject is what happens after the brainstorm.