1IB I Business Development

Business Development for Innovative Companies

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Every day, I share tips to help you turn your innovation into a thriving spin-off while staying true to your passion for academic entrepreneurship.

Let’s grow together in Leadership, Business Development and Technology Transfer. @mariomschaefer

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What is more important for startup success? The Team or The Idea?

#entrepreneur #founder #startup #idea #execution

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When your core prototype breaks or your software goes down, hiding in your office signals panic. True leadership means stepping out of the clean room and sitting on the floor right next to your engineers until it is fixed.

#Leadership #Accountability #Culture #Resilience #Trust

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Tips to help you turn your innovation into a thriving spin-off while staying true to your passion for academic entrepreneurship.
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Productivity I Leadership I Business Development I Technology Transfer I Spin-offs I Academic Entrepreneurship

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If you walk into a company meeting and you are the undisputed expert on every single topic, like sales, marketing, fundraising and engineering, you are not a great CEO. You are a bottleneck.

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I was thinking about how fragile early-stage companies actually are.

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I have sat down with some successful tech founders. They all say the same thing.

In the early days they never waited for inspiration to strike before doing the work.

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Doing What Matters: The Power of Purposeful Productivity 📚
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Spinning a startup out of university research, you probably think your patent is your shield.

That is why you need to watch "Flash of Genius". It is the true story of a professor who invented a breakthrough automotive part, only to see a corporate giant walk away with it.

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Most people think discipline is about willpower. I think it is about self-respect.

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Replacing talent costs more than treating them well from the beginning.

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It is expensive to be validated. And profitable to be questioned.

#entrepreneur #founder #startup #idea #execution

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Did you read "Doing What Matters: The Power of Purposeful Productivity"? 📚

#book #books #lfl #fff

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In a startup, your ego is a liability. The struggle is not the fundraising. The real struggle is letting go of your identity as a respected researcher and accepting your new role as a beginner CEO.

#Innovation #TechTransfer #ResearchAndDevelopment #BusinessDevelopment

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When you are training interns, but also have deadlines to meet. 

#leadership #leaders #motivation

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We have been conditioned by the history books to believe in the myth of the isolated, lone scientist who changes the world through intellectual horsepower.

It is a beautiful narrative, but it is a lie that destroys companies.

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External metrics are a moving goal. If you do not learn to find fulfillment in the raw act of building, no amount of market praise will ever feel like enough.

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In the lab, data wins and the rules are transparent. But the moment you spin your research into a startup, you enter a boardroom where unwritten power dynamics dictate survival.

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Success is not measured by the busyness of our days, but by the depth and purpose of our actions.

Thanks for the invitation, PRIME Events.

Enjoyed the workshop and lively discussions.

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Doing What Matters: The Power of Purposeful Productivity 📷

https://t.co/tE9cGGMz4e

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The hardest thing to let go of is not your data. It is your status. You spent a decade becoming the definitive authority in your niche.

Now, you are sitting in a room with a twenty-five-year-old venture capitalist or a corporate buyer who does not care about your status.

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You do not change culture through emails and memos. You change it through relationships. One conversation at a time.