myNEXT Startup Edge
myNEXT Startup Edge
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The podcast that gives your startup the edge. This is the podcast where we empower startups, innovators, and forward-thinkers like you with actionable insights to raise funding, develop products, commercialize your innovation, and build your company. Brought to you by Dirk Lammerts, CEO and Founder myNEXT, VC investor, startup founder, and Innovation Revenue Generator.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as First Principles Thinking, innovative product design, and foundational business questions. Key episodes include explorations of Apple's iPhone as a case study for First Principles Thinking, discussions around the essential question for startups regarding problem-solving, and unconventional perspectives on goal-setting behaviors such as New Year's resolutions.
The podcast that gives your startup the edge. This is the podcast where we empower startups, innovators, and forward-thinkers like you with actionable insights to raise funding, develop products, commercialize your innovation, and build your company. Brought to you by Dirk Lammerts, CEO and Founder myNEXT, VC investor, startup founder, and Innovation Revenue Generator.
This episode is my outlook on 2026.
Not as a list of trends. Not as a prediction. But as a framing shift that I believe will matter a lot for startups and innovation teams alike.
2026 is not about continuing what we’ve been doing. It’s also not about catching up. It’s about compounding what’s already in place.
I believe 2026 will be a filter year – a year where capital, customers, and attention start flowing only toward real momentum. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But structurally.
For startups, that has a very direct implication:
Funding will follow momentum. It will no longer precede it.
For corporate innovators, the shift is just as important – but slightly different.
Innovation alone stops being strategic. Commercialization becomes the bottleneck.
The teams that win in 2026 will be the ones that can translate technology into real market traction and revenue – consistently.
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