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Product strategy leader with deep expertise in entrepreneurship, human-centered design…
Courses by Karen
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Product Innovation for Product Managers1h 9m
Product Innovation for Product Managers
By: Karen Holst
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Product Management: Launching Your Product1h 10m
Product Management: Launching Your Product
By: Karen Holst
Articles by Karen
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How to Think Like Amazon to Disrupt and Innovate
How to Think Like Amazon to Disrupt and Innovate
By Karen Holst Tudhope
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How to Get Quick Wins to Gain Trust & Scale Innovation
How to Get Quick Wins to Gain Trust & Scale Innovation
By Karen Holst Tudhope
Contributions
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What are the most common mistakes in leading innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives?
Landing big, innovative ideas hinges on well-articulated problem statements. Here's a straightforward approach to aid in formulating a statement: [User] has [problem] when [trigger]. Kicking things off with simplicity enables engineering teams to engage in collective problem exploration, diving into details regarding the current customer situation, their objectives, the obstacles impeding goal attainment, and the envisioned outcome.
Activity
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Innovation really is a team sport. Last month I led and participated in Atlassian's innovation ritual, ShipIt. Teams come together from across the…
Innovation really is a team sport. Last month I led and participated in Atlassian's innovation ritual, ShipIt. Teams come together from across the…
Shared by Karen Holst Tudhope
Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Lead Mentor
Techstars
- Present 6 years
Leverage human-centered design to advise early-stage AI startups on how to transform their ideas into full-fledged ventures.
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Mentor & Advisor
Real Ventures
- Present 5 years 4 months
From consulting teams on product/market fit to coaching entrepreneurs on work/life balance, I'm an ally in building transformative products and services.
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Bay Area Executive Board Member
Spark Program
- 3 years
Education
Strategic counsel, helping Spark to navigate growth choices and meet a $3.5M budget in the Bay Area to significantly impact the area’s dropout crisis.
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Judge & Mentor
Big Ideas Competition, UC Berkeley
- 5 months
Part of an early-stage, university-based, innovation contest that connects students with the advising, training, and resources needed to successfully conceptualize, deploy, and scale social innovations. More of that, please!
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Launch Advisor
SXSW
- Present 6 years
SXSW EDU Launch celebrates emerging innovations in learning with a fast-paced pitch competition featuring early-stage startups during SXSW EDU.
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Member
Full Circle Fund
- 2 years 6 months
Education
Fund member with network of professionals who leverage their time, talent and connections to help nonprofit organizations launch new initiatives, make a greater impact and accelerate positive change in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Technovation Challenge Mentor
Iridescent
- Present 12 years
Science and Technology
Led a team of high school girls as they design and develop a mobile phone app for the Android Market. Equipped young women to become technologically literate to lead disruptive innovation for global impact.
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Co-Founding Board Member, Volunteer
Colin's Hope
- Present 16 years 1 month
Children
Co-founding board member, and part of the core team leading board development, corporate fundraising, performance evaluation, nonprofit governance, and strategic planning for childhood drowning prevention.
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Co-Founder, Member
Alison's Hope for Hearing
- Present 15 years 1 month
Health
Co-founding board member developing the infrastructure, board governance and communications strategy for a national nonprofit creating and supporting programs to serve the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publications
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Innovation is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Voltage Control
Organizations that can think creatively to establish longer runways for innovation work, diversify the makeup of teams, and agree on balanced metrics are positioned to overcome the difficult nature of innovation allowing it to flow freely and carry them into the future.
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The Best College Courses for a Degree in Innovation
Inc.
In the future, jobs will require people to be adaptable and innovative. Students that learn these skills will be in high demand and the next leaders of organizations driving innovation.
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The Importance of Organization in Innovation
Inc.
In order to create and execute on new, novel ideas, it requires taking a leap to get an organization system in place and the discipline of evaluating and iterating organization strategies as you go along.
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Key Enablers for Corporate Innovation--That Will Help You Avoid Getting Stuck
Inc.
While large corporations are investing in building a culture of entrepreneurship, the reality is that implementing disruptive innovation is a complex endeavor. It requires to move resources from your core business to experiment on potentially successful, ambiguous business concepts.
Leveraging key enablers will help you to navigate that complexity. An innovation portfolio tightly aligned to your company business strategy, upfront agreement on innovation accounting and a well organized…While large corporations are investing in building a culture of entrepreneurship, the reality is that implementing disruptive innovation is a complex endeavor. It requires to move resources from your core business to experiment on potentially successful, ambiguous business concepts.
Leveraging key enablers will help you to navigate that complexity. An innovation portfolio tightly aligned to your company business strategy, upfront agreement on innovation accounting and a well organized and staffed innovation team will provide with a solid platform to continuously engage your organization along with its innovation journey. -
Roadblocks to Good Ideas & How to Overcome Them
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Roadblocks don't have to be the death of a great idea. With a simple, three-step strategy—prepare, listen, and follow-up—you can set yourself on the path to blowing past what slows good ideas down.
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How to Get Quick Wins to Gain Trust within Your Organization & Scale Innovation
Inc.
When launching innovation programs, there are two areas to focus on to gain quick wins: new behaviors and new processes. Employing activities within these areas will further your innovation strategy, gaining trust and credibility along the way.
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When Creating a New Innovation Program, Size Matters
Inc.
When leaders want to scale and grow their business, they develop internal corporate programs to create a structure that accelerates innovation efforts.
These corporate innovation programs vary in size and opportunity depending on the long-term goals and objectives of the organization. But when starting a new program, it often requires building a prototype or smaller program that can then lead to bigger initiatives down the line.
When you develop an initiative that has room to…When leaders want to scale and grow their business, they develop internal corporate programs to create a structure that accelerates innovation efforts.
These corporate innovation programs vary in size and opportunity depending on the long-term goals and objectives of the organization. But when starting a new program, it often requires building a prototype or smaller program that can then lead to bigger initiatives down the line.
When you develop an initiative that has room to grow, you create momentum and buy-in from leadership and also allow for the testing of what works and what doesn't.
These four corporate innovation approaches provide the inspiration for launching a new program within your own company. From providing tools to transforming mindsets, they are built to empower your teams to bring new solutions to market. -
Science-Backed Tips to Unlock Creativity on Teams
Inc.
Researchers find that positive emotions like trust, curiosity, confidence, and inspiration broaden the mind and help us build psychological safety. We become more open-minded, resilient, motivated, and persistent when we feel safe. Humor increases, as does solution-finding and divergent thinking--the cognitive process underlying creativity.
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Design Thinking With the California Department of Education
EdWeek
When it comes to digital resources, the issue is not about making more resources available or curating all of them through a new website. It is about a bigger challenge: addressing educator needs by putting them first in designing the solution.
Organizations
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Big Ideas Competition, UC Berkeley
Judge
- PresentBig Ideas is an early-stage university-based innovation contest that connects students—the world’s next generation of social entrepreneurs—with the mentorship, training, and resources needed to successfully conceptualize, deploy, and scale social innovations. Big Ideas plugs student entrepreneurs into a robust innovation ecosystem of high-caliber mentors, academics, scientists, tech experts, industry leaders, and investors, enabling them to access the full spectrum of resources needed to bring…
Big Ideas is an early-stage university-based innovation contest that connects students—the world’s next generation of social entrepreneurs—with the mentorship, training, and resources needed to successfully conceptualize, deploy, and scale social innovations. Big Ideas plugs student entrepreneurs into a robust innovation ecosystem of high-caliber mentors, academics, scientists, tech experts, industry leaders, and investors, enabling them to access the full spectrum of resources needed to bring their ideas to fruition.
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Stanford University - Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative
Mentor
- PresentThe Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative is a Stanford University research initiative housed within Stanford Graduate School of Business. SLEI explores and expands our knowledge of the Latino entrepreneurship segment in our economy through research, knowledge dissemination, and facilitated collaboration.
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