How do you find the True North metrics you should be focusing on? Setting the right framework and benchmarks helps measure progress towards business goals, both in startups and in large organisations.
At the recent Highline Beta event in New York, we hosted innovation teams and leaders from Citi, Credit Suisse, Fitch Ratings and Mitsui & Co. to dig deeper into the good and the bad of innovation metrics. Learn about setting the right metrics and KPIs.
Highline Beta Doubles Down on Growth, brings on Ian Carnevale, co-founder of Andela as VP Of Growth Ops
At Highline Beta we believe that smart cities are the future, and even though it may not be evenly distributed yet, in many ways that future is taking shape now. That’s why, earlier this month we co-hosted our first ever smart cities event with Sidewalk Labs, Smart City Dreams: Evolving Smart Cities from Blueprints to Reality. […]
On the surface, the industries of farming and finance couldn’t look any more different. Sachin Shende, with farming in his blood and degrees in agricultural engineering and computational hydraulics, begs to differ. While working as a quantitative developer in London’s asset management sector, he started noticing the similarities between the fields. “The concept of managing […]
This simple device could prevent widespread damage from future water crises. Spout isn’t Ari Kaufman’s first venture. Far from it. The water safety testing device startup is the serial entrepreneur’s seventh company — and perhaps his most game-changing yet. The company’s mission is crystal clear: safe water for everyone, everywhere. It sounds lofty, but Spout’s deceptively […]
Most people outside the trucking industry probably assume shipping cargo by truck works something like this: A manufacturer has goods to send across the country. They fill a big-rig with those goods. The big-rig delivers those goods. The end. The reality is much more complex. What if that manufacturer doesn’t have enough goods to fill […]
Creating a sustainable future: How the world’s largest brewer built a global accelerator program to create solutions for some of the most pressing environmental and social challenges of our time.
Producing a 250-ml glass of beer can require 74 litres of water. Producing a litre of pop can require twice as much water — or more. That water can’t just be pumped back into the system to be used again. It’s wastewater. When you start to consider just how much wastewater is produced by various […]
Successful startups usually don’t win with their first idea or first product. There are many examples of startups that pivoted (in some cases multiple times), or completely reinvented themselves, in order to win. Starbucks started selling espresso machines and beans door-to-door before pivoting to coffee shops on every corner. Avon started as door-to-door book sales, only to […]
