Startup in Residence is an initiative of Startup Amsterdam and the Chief Technology Office (CTO) of the City of Amsterdam. During a six month programme 10 startups will receive training half a day per week. This ranges from value proposition building to Growth Hacking and from intellectual property to financial administration. During the virtual Open......
On 21 June, Daan Witteveen and Toon Branbergen hosted an Open Incubation workshop for the participants in the Sustainability Programma @ Startup in Residence Amsterdam. Through the Open Incubation framework the participants learned how venture governance will enable the venture team to align on roles, contributions & rewards, values and rules of engagement. This way......
We have published a second version of the Open Incubation white paper. The white paper contains a playbook on the Open Incubation Model. You can download the Open Incubation white paper for free. In the Open Incubation white paper, we will first discuss the need for a new venture governance model. Thereafter, we will explore......
Venture governance is well established for venture capital backed start-ups. In return for a financial investment, start-ups are required to implement the venture capital governance model. This model is optimised for value creation in a three to eight year period followed by an exit or IPO. Whereas the traditional venture capital governance model is designed......
On January 18, 2019 Toon Branbergen and Daan Witteveen hosted an Open Incubation workshop for a group of venture teams participating in the Startup in Residence program of the municipality Amsterdam. During the workshop we have tested a new workshop approach whereby the venture teams worked step by step on building a tailored venture governance......
When starting-up a new venture, resources, time and cash are constraint. The Open Incubation venture governance model recognises four building blocks: Role & Contribution, Rewards, Values and Rules of Engagement. Where resources, time and cash are the ‘Contributions’ of the venture team to get started, ‘Rewards’ is what the venture team gets in return. Most......
On November 27th Wyand Bodewes, associate professor entrepreneurship of the Maastricht School of Management gave a talk on Open Incubation at the Brightlands campus Greenport in Venlo (NL). Read the linkedin post on Wynand’s talk...
Most successful companies and organisations once started as a project. Open Incubation is a governance model for venture teams to enable effective collaboration between participants during the journey of a start-up, from incubation to incorporation. The mission of Open Incubation is to help entrepreneurs to team-up, hack together and share. To facilitate venture teams to......
As most start-up teams only realise the importance of venture governance when it is too late, we have the dveleoped five questions founders and their venture teams should ask themselves at the front-end of their start-up journey: How to start an open venture together with multiple co-founders and partners? How to keep the balance between......
We have published a second version of the Open Incubation white paper. The white paper contains a playbook on the Open Incubation Model. You can download the Open Incubation white paper for free. In the Open Incubation white paper, we will first discuss the need for a new venture governance model. Thereafter, we will explore......
On 12 January 2018, Toon Branbergen and Daan Witteveen facilitated the second Open Incubation workshop at the Entrepreneur in Residence program of the City of Amsterdam. For more information on the workshop: ...
On 22 June 2015, Daan Witteveen and Toonbranbergen gave a workshop on the Open Incubation model at LaunchBase, the incubator program of Maastricht Univeristy. Some 1o teams participated in the workshop. In the workshop the 5 main challenges that ventures teams face were discussed: How to start an open venture together with multiple co-founders and partners?......
Open Incubation builds upon open innovation and distributed entrepreneurship. Open Incubation is a game changing development in innovation and venturing. It captures concepts such as lean, agile, collaboration, openness, social and sharing. Open Incubation is an invitation to participate in the creation of a new democratized and mindful economy. OpenIncubation.com will explore the concept of......