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About the Past, Webinar

In this webinar Sean Sheppard and Andrew Goldner of GrowthX tackle two sides of the corporate innovation coin: commercializing innovation and corporate venture capital best practices. How should a company create new markets for unfamiliar products? How can corporate venture capital not only stimulate innovation but also strategically benefit a range of business functions? Too often, conventional corporate wisdom fails to address these challenges. Join Sean and Andrew as they offer their insights gained through decades of experience in the space where startups, corporates and innovation intersect.

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  • The market development process that companies launching new products must follow
  • How corporate venture capital can drive corporate innovation
  • Best practices for corporate venture capital

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Andrew GoldnerGrowthX, Founding Partner
Sean SheppardFounding Partner, GrowthX

About Our Guest

Andrew Goldner

Andrew is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. He has been in the technology sector since 1998, based in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Palo Alto. Andrew began his career in technology as a lawyer for the early Internet pioneers in Search (Alta Vista and Yahoo), AdTech (DoubleClick), SaaS (Salesforce) and others while practicing law. He left private practice at Skadden Arps to join DoubleClick leading up to the Google acquisition. Andrew then joined Thomson Financial where he co-founded their financial news business leading to the acquisition of Reuters. At Thomson Reuters, Andrew served as Publisher of Reuters News, where he worked on innovation and design-thinking with nearly 3,000 journalists based in 200 countries worldwide. He then became Co-Founder and Managing Director of the company’s legal media business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. After 6 years in Asia, Andrew returned to the U.S. and returned to helping early-stage companies. Andrew is a Kauffman Fellow, Regional Board Member of Venture for America, and a proud Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Palo Alto.

Sean Sheppard

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. Sean has over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, including as a five-times sales founder. Sean’s deep expertise has been codified into a proprietary market acceleration program and entrepreneurial sales training curriculum. In addition to helping dozens of startups find product-market fit and predictable revenue models, Sean helps global multinationals to identify new applications for their existing technology portfolio, bring new products to market with profitable business models, and organize and train self-managing early product-stage sales and marketing teams. Sean’s successful corporate advisory track record includes work for Bridgestone, Canon, Faurecia, and Clariant. Sean is a globally recognized sales and marketing thought leader. He was named as One of the Top Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media, as well as Top 20 Inside Sales Influencers.
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