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Spin-up something new
When it comes to industry disruption, the best defence is a good offence.
WHAT IS A SPIN-UP?
A pathway to opportunity, agility and innovation
Business as usual won’t cut it. Transformation projects take so much time and money. You need a smarter, rapid, cost-effective way to harness technology opportunities.
A spin-up involves setting up an independent team that rapidly validates the feasibility of a potential new venture, product or service.
Spin-ups allow your existing business to explore a new venture with speed, agility and entrepreneurism without disrupting core business operations.
Early Days specialises in helping companies rapidly spin-up new ventures and products. We are experts in building teams, exploring possibilities, designing solutions, and validating with customers.
Spin-up Examples
A smart way
to pursue
innovation
When a big competitor moved directly into their space, Odeo was confronted with a dilemma: attempt to compete or try to spin-up something new?
They chose the latter, and Twitter was born.
When a successful e-commerce company realised that their internal hosting and infrastructure was exceptional, they decided to spin it up into its own business.
That business, Amazon Web Services, recently topped $25 billion in revenue.
In Australia, both Fairfax and News Corp spun-up digital platforms for their property classifieds.
This led to successful spin-offs for both Domain ($1.5bn) and REA Group ($10bn+) respectively.
Not every new venture will lead to billion dollar successes, however if your industry is facing disruption, sluggish growth or you’re hungry for new opportunities, spin-ups are a fast, exciting and low-risk way to re-capture entrepreneurial spirit.
THE EARLY DAYS DIFFERENCE
The spirit of founders
Early Days has extensive experience building digital ventures, products and tools. We’ve been in the trenches – starting, building and running our own businesses and we bring that founder spirit when we partner with entrepreneurs, startups and growing companies.
We are an independent, boutique studio and only work with a handful of partners each year. When you work with us, you work directly with the founders of Early Days, Justin McMurray and Ian McCallam, who boast over 30 years combined experience in the digital world.
Recent Spin-Ups
Some recent work not bound by confidentiality
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“We knew it was a terrific opportunity worth exploring but we didn’t want to impact our core business. Early Days were the right partner as they augmented our industry insight and helped us rapidly create our new venture in a smart, collaborative, cost-effective way.”
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Empowering self-directed investors
"Early Days taught us a fundamentally new way of working. They helped us rapidly explore, validate and test an entirely new digital business model embracing all the start-up practices that we simply didn’t have the internal capabilities for."
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