Working a fifth of the week on a side project inside a big company is a policy on paper only

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Borrowing people from other teams works until their manager wants them back Building a new business next to the core one works only when the parent stops applying core margin targets Multiyear corporate commitments outlast the executive who signed them and that is the point An intrapreneur's first problem is a budget line nobody will create for a project outside the plan A corporate venture unit funded from the annual budget dies the first year the core business misses Internal venture allocation needs a committee willing to fund a second round after a miss Corporate entrepreneurship programs measured on revenue in year one are designed to be shut down Corporate venture boards approve pilots and then route the successful ones back into the core business Ambidextrous structures: running the core business and the new one under different scorecards Should an intrapreneur negotiate equity or a title before the project proves anything