Are you struggling to determine which of your startup ideas is worth pursuing? Wasting time, money, and effort on a doomed concept is the last thing you want. In this blog post, we'll guide you through the essential factors to evaluate your idea's potential success. From
Remember that tech startup idea you’ve been sitting on, putting off because the day job’s too demanding and family life’s getting in the way? Don’t sit around any longer.⏰ ‍ Yes, back in the day, getting a start-up off the ground required a ton of heavy lifting.
Every ambitious organisation hits a handful of inflection points where the next decision either compounds growth or clips it. We call these “Moments”—and everything we do at Mindlace is designed to deliver outsized impact exactly when they appear. Below is a primer on the seven Moments, with a short
Clayton Christensen’s research shows that the very success factors of an established business can sabotage its next-wave bets. Below are the traps we see most often when companies try to diversify—and the playbook that breaks each one: * Cannibal-phobia. Product GMs block a new digital line because it “steals”
Use bleeding-edge technology and AI to spin up new digital revenue streams, monetise your data, or create entirely new service models - fast Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 6 - Business Model Diversification: the point where ambitious firms look beyond their core
Modern organisations are drowning in copy-and-paste work. Knowledge workers still spend entire afternoons triaging email threads, re-keying data between SaaS tools, or searching SharePoint for the “right” version of a slide. That friction is now a strategic risk: McKinsey’s latest State of AI survey finds that 78% of companies
Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post explores Moment 7 – Growth-to-Exit Diversification: the point where a founder-led business is preparing for a sizeable PE deal or secondary buy-out and must prove its revenue engine is resilient, scalable and defensible. See a summary of those seven moments
Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 5 – Product / Platform Rethink: the point at which a digital product or service needs fresh traction and new revenue by embedding AI-native capabilities. See a summary of those seven moments here. Why this moment is impossible to
Moment 4 — Legacy System Modernisation Mindlace helps companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 4 – Legacy System Modernisation: the point where an ambitious company decides to turn brittle, manual platforms into an integrated tech-stack that can actually power growth. See a summary of those seven moments here. Why
The rhetoric around “innovation labs” and “venture studios” is everywhere, yet most mid-market firms still feel change happening to them rather than through them. In 2024, Boston Consulting Group found that while 83% of leaders say innovation is a top-three priority, barely one-third believe they have the capabilities in place
Why Turning Raw Data into Rapid Insight Is Mid-Market Leaders’ Next Competitive Battleground Executive summary The volume of enterprise data will grow at roughly 2× the rate of global GDP for the rest of the decade, according to IDC’s 2024 Global DataSphere forecast (Revelations in the Global DataSphere, 2024:
Navigating Your AI Transformation. This report is designed for C-suite executives leading ambitious mid-market organisations. Inside this post, you'll gain a clear perspective on the strategic imperative of AI Enablement and Automation – understanding not only the significant opportunities for efficiency and growth but also the common challenges firms