【Nurturing Innovation through the Key Role: The Intermediary】
It's more than simply brainstorming that might be needed to spark Innovation. The latest cover story of Harvard Business Review Global Traditional Chinese Edition points out that the key to success lies in having an "intermediary" who can guide long-term collaboration. HBR Taiwan interviewed Edgar Chiu (me) to share our perspectives on SparkLabs Taiwan's acceleration program experiences.
▎Establishing Connections: The intermediary's role isn't just about bringing people together, fostering trusting relationships, and creating a conducive structure for dialogue.
▎Developing Relationships: The intermediary must devise a collaboration roadmap, introduce external perspectives, act as a coach, create a safe environment, and ignite team motivation.
▎Maintaining Management: As collaboration scales up and organizational demands become more complex, the intermediary needs to focus on building strong relationships, providing opportunities for reflection, and assisting in managing stress and emotions.
The rise of the intermediary helps startups overcome barriers, create open and transparent platforms, ensure consensus among all parties, encourage participants to speak up, and ultimately achieve shared success.
SparkLabs Taiwan, an international venture capital and startup accelerator from Silicon Valley, serves as an intermediary. It deeply understands the needs of all parties, assists in solving internal and external business issues, and fosters mutual benefits.
In a startup case study, Ting-Kuan Chen, Co-founder and CEO of FunNow, a real-time booking platform in Taiwan, shared its journey, highlighting the crucial role played by SparkLabs Taiwan, including providing "lessons from failure" to avoid pitfalls and increase success rates, building networks of professionals to assist with registration, trademarks, patents, etc., facilitating connections between external entrepreneurial partners, introducing suitable startup talent, and linking to the capital market.
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