While a project spinning out into its own company has happened time and time again in the startup world, four technologists from Seer Interactive, The Motley Fool and Arable Ventures discussed how the ideals and attitude of a startup can exist inside a larger company or corporation during a Philly Tech Week 2020 presented by Comcast event Tuesday morning.

Lisha Davis, founder of Arable Ventures, a boutique consulting and advising firm and former head of Vanguard’s Innovation Studio, said the biggest difference between startups and other companies is usually the access to resources. But user focus, testing and learning, and the speediness of a startup can be established in a large company, she said.

“Startups are very resource-constrained, and their team is very lean, so they don’t have the luxury of building these super large, overladen, feature-type products,” Davis said. “But their orientation is very much towards learning and validation, while large corporations tend to be focused on delivery and scale.”

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