The Startup Mindset
Growth
Stages Of A Startup
Ideation
Corporate Entrepreneurship
100

This tier of creativity consists of large scale contributions and is associated with visionaries.

What is Big C creativity?

100

This system can be incorporated into startups to be more successful.

What is a support team

100

This process is defined as a way for a company to determine the best way to reach its target audience as well as determine what products and services are going to be the most successful.

What is Competetive Analysis?

100

This term refers to the process of generating, developing, and refining innovative ideas for a new business or product?

What is startup ideation?

100

This term refers to buying or owning another or new business. 

What is an acquisition? 

200

The rules: defer judgment, quantity over quality, build on ideas of others, and encourage wild ideas are all apart of this process.

What is brainstorming?

200

This is an effective way to build chemistry within a startup.

What are individuals with similar goals and strong drives?

200

This document, created by a company, describes a company’s goals, operations, financial projections, standing in the industry, and objectives in terms of marketing.

What is a business plan?

200

Before ideation, it's crucial for startups to conduct this type of research to understand customer needs and preferences.

What is market research?

200

These four terms refer to the 4 main components of corporate entrepreneurship. 

What are corporate venturing, innovation, strategic renewal, and thinking corporate venturing. 

300

In 2022 47% of startups failed due to these reasons.

What is lack of financing?

300

This term is often referred to as a smart entry for startups. 

What is customer development?

300

This term refers to the financing used to initial operating expenses as well as development before the company earns enough revenue to support itself. 

What is Seed Capital?

300

This term describes when a startup changes its business strategy or product concept in response to market feedback.

What is pivot? 


300

This term refers to the way in which companies make new businesses or products to generate revenue for themselves and their shareholders. 

What is CE Research? 

400

A unicorn company is a company with a value of $1+ billion dollars. Miami University has produced (__number__) unicorn companies.

What is seven?

400

This term refers to a good way to attract and retain top talent, at a startup. 

What is a strong culture and vision?

400

This term is expressed as a measurement of the percentage of customers lost over new customers gained in a period of time.

What is Churn Rate?

400

This creative technique involves brainstorming ideas without judgment or criticism to encourage free thinking.

What is idea generation? 

400

Niche Businesses fall under this category of Corporate entrepreneurship. 

What is Small Business Entrepreneurship? 

500

This self-help book is recommended by Steve Jobs, was written by a Harvard professor, and highlights disruptive technologies.

What is “The Innovator's Dilemma”

500

These terms refer to some of the benefits of innovation in startups. 

What is efficiency and a culture of care?

500

This term refers to when a private company sells its first shares of stock to the public. 

What is Initial Public Offering (IPO)?

500

This approach involves seeking input and ideas from a large group of people, often through online platforms.

What is crowdsourcing? 

500

This type of entrepreneurship specializes in technology-based businesses to create new and innovative products. 

What is techno-entrepreneurship? 

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