Elevate your innovation team with our 8-part course:

“The Science of the Spin In”

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Course Details

The Science of the Spin-In

This "short course" provides weekly lessons, including case studies and templates, that help corporate innovation teams integrate a new offering into your core business - we call it the "Spin-In"!

New lesson released each week

Each lesson takes less than 6 minutes

Case studies graphics and behind-the-scene photos

Simple, ready-to-use templates provided

Lesson #1

Intro: The Science of the Spin-In

For large businesses, getting traction isn't enough. Once your new business spins-up, it needs to scale-up and spin-in. Here's how to tilt the playing field for the spin-in.

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Lesson #2

Leveraging Your Unfair Advantages

Stop exploring white space, with nothing to show but red ink. Instead, learn how to find "purple oceans" that connect to your scaling advantages.

Lesson #3

Knowing Your (Exit) Options

For corporates, there are six exit options for organic growth. Start with the spin-in options in mind.

Lesson #4

Use Milestones & Tripwires Like a VC

When you set these up right, it lets spin-in teams run validation experiments without long pauses for investor alignment.

Lesson #5

The Fast 5 Field Tests

These 5 tests are the shortcuts you need to get to MVP in months and post-revenue within Year 1.

Lesson #6

Plug-In Partnering

Partnerships for the spin-in should be frequent, temporary, and opportunistic. Otherwise you end up working for the partnership, instead of vice versa.

Lesson #7

Pivot Like a Pro

Pivots are a test of will and skill for the whole team. Here are the principles for knowing When, and figuring out How.

Lesson #8

Empowering the Venture Board

The adversarial model is dead. Pitching is dead. Here's how to put your leaders in a position to set milestones, encourage venture teams, and guide successful spin-ins.

Includes case studies from our work with

Nike’s innovation team used spin-in science to create a direct-to-consumer subscription service that helps busy moms and young athletes get their kicks.
PMI used the spin-in to turn their monolithic knowledge base into digestible, on-demand, healthy snacks for the mobile – and upwardly mobile – professional.
DTE partnered with us to develop a spin-in home energy management service that is so good, other utilities now license it from them!

Meet your instructors

Clay Maxwell

Has built spin-ins for firms including Nike and DTE. Most recently spun-in Addie, age 1!

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Nalat Yulong

Engineer, innovator, and maker of killer digital products. Not to mention homemade hot sauce.

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Josh Clayton

Thinks big and does validation testing in his sleep. Just ask J&J. As long as he has his stretchy pants.

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Kasey Mitchell

Her launches span healthcare to fintech to edtech. And now with her pooch Manny, seniortech.

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Tim Ogilvie

Battle stripes from his IoT startup help him chart the path from 0 to 1. Then he takes a cookie break.

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