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Financial Criteria for Killer Innovations

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney

Dateline: Washington D.C.
Segment 1: Financial Criteria for Killer Innovations
– Provide access to signiicant revenue pools (> $1B USD)
– Cash flow positive at $25 to $30M USD
– EBITDA positive beyond $50M USD
– Consistant gross margin from $100M to +$1B USD
Segement 2: Example of applying Killer Questions
Segement 3: Killer Question of the Week

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

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