Paul Orlando
Learn startup techniques and examples applicable to large organizations. Paul has explored these topics in mulitiple companies and global locations. He leaves each audience with frameworks and tools they can use long after the talk is over.
Paul Orlando accelerates company growth. He founded and operated successful startup accelerator programs in Hong Kong (focused on mobile development), Los Angeles (focused on business growth), and the Laudato Si accelerator affiliated with the Vatican in Rome (focused on environmental technology). Companies Paul has worked with have raised tens of millions in capital, served millions of customers, and have been acquired. He has authored several related academic case studies available on Harvard Business Publishing. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
Paul consults to larger institutions as they innovate, develop, and grow, especially in transitioning past legacy business models by using rapid experimentation techniques. In the past Paul also co-founded a B2B startup and consulted to Fortune 100 firms. Paul has been featured in media including Forbes, TechCrunch, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and was a winner at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. He has a BA from Cornell, an MBA from Columbia, and speaks Mandarin.
Paul has a portfolio of 100+ companies dealing with innovation and product development issues. This experience enabled him to build a process for rapid experimentation and client market discovery. He works with enterprises and funded startups, often helping them test which of their innovations should be brought to market.
Learn startup techniques and examples applicable to large organizations. Paul has explored these topics in mulitiple companies and global locations. He leaves each audience with frameworks and tools they can use long after the talk is over.
Paul Orlando accelerates company growth. He founded and operated successful startup accelerator programs in Hong Kong (focused on mobile development), Los Angeles (focused on business growth), and the Laudato Si accelerator affiliated with the Vatican in Rome (focused on environmental technology). Companies Paul has worked with have raised tens of millions in capital, served millions of customers, and have been acquired. He has authored several related academic case studies available on Harvard Business Publishing. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
Paul consults to larger institutions as they innovate, develop, and grow, especially in transitioning past legacy business models by using rapid experimentation techniques. In the past Paul also co-founded a B2B startup and consulted to Fortune 100 firms. Paul has been featured in media including Forbes, TechCrunch, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and was a winner at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. He has a BA from Cornell, an MBA from Columbia, and speaks Mandarin.
Paul has a portfolio of 100+ companies dealing with innovation and product development issues. This experience enabled him to build a process for rapid experimentation and client market discovery. He works with enterprises and funded startups, often helping them test which of their innovations should be brought to market.
Leading Innovation Around the World
This is a keynote on what I learned running "startup accelerator" programs around the world. (Startup accelerators are a way to scale innovation by identifying high-growth companies and provide resources including capital, guidance, and connections.) From Hong Kong, to Rome, to Los Angeles, each location required a different solution.
While each location, program, and mix of companies was different, there were commonalities that held true. This keynote will...
Leading Startup Portfolios on Three Continents
From Hong Kong, to Los Angeles, to the Vatican. How running three very different startup accelerators over five years changed the way I think about entrepreneurship. Multiple program formats, 100+ companies, tens of millions in funding, lots of customers, exits, all across three continents. The workshop focuses on:
• Commonalities faced by growing companies across locations.
• Getting results: How I try to "trick" people into learning.
• Next steps in thinking about...
Unintended Consequences - Examples from Business
This talk is dedicated to the understanding of unintended consequences and the development of frameworks to evaluate related decisions.
What are some examples of unintended consequences? The list seems endless.
- Colonial British in India offered a bounty for dead cobras, which resulted in people breeding cobras to exchange. When the bounty ended, the cobra breeders released the snakes into the wild, thus increasing the cobra population.
- The...
Applying Lean Startup in the Enterprise
I have helped hundreds of startups grow across multiple "accelerator" programs around the world and in advising relationships. I also teach entrepreneurship at USC in Los Angeles. But I've also worked in Fortune 100 companies as an employee and as a consultant. Bringing innovation into the enterprise is...
