What You’ll Find This Week

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After our September 2024 launch, 2025 was our first full year of innovation content… and what a year it has been! In this edition, you’ll find a recap of milestones, favorite articles, and more. So grab an egg nog or a coffee and let’s take look back at 2025...

Here’s what you’ll find:

The Stats
The Most Viewed Posts of 2025
The Most Clicked Post of 2025
My 3 Favorite Posts of 2025
The Top Podcast Episodes of 2025
The Most Relistened-To Episode of 2025

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This Week’s Article

Year in Review: 2025 | The Stats

Posts Published	93
Words Written	~100,500
Average Open Rate	60.5%
Total Impressions	26,600
Subscriber Growth	236%
Podcast Episodes Published	16

The Most Viewed Posts of 2025

A Foolproof Way for Teams to Make Time for Innovation

Discover the red/green operating rhythm: a proven strategy to help teams break free from busy work and consistently carve out time for meaningful innovation in 2025.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/a-foolproof-way-for-teams-to-make-time-for-innovation

How to Survive the 2025 Funding Bloodbath

Navigate the 2025 venture capital landscape with expert insights: Learn how founders can survive the funding crunch and secure critical investments in a challenging market.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/how-to-survive-the-2025-funding-bloodbath

What's It Really Take to Get Acquired?

Uncover the raw truth about startup acquisitions: Expert insights reveal the hidden challenges, strategic nuances, and critical steps founders must navigate to successfully exit.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/whats-it-really-take-to-get-acquired

The Most Clicked Post of 2025

Hyperphysical Experiences are Changing Retail

Discover how Hermès' Mystery at the Grooms' reveals that true innovation transcends technology, transforming luxury retail through immersive, unscalable storytelling experiences.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/hyperphysical-experiences-are-changing-retail

My 3 Favorite Posts of 2025

Introducing the Disruption Canvas

Unleash deliberate disruption with the Disruption Canvas: A groundbreaking innovation tool to assess and amplify the transformative potential of your most visionary ideas.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/introducing-the-disruption-canvas

Why this post? ☝️

We all love a good framework, right? The Disruption Canvas is an entirely new take on how to make disruption a deliberate and strategic aspect of your innovation efforts. If you have an idea for a new product or service, regardless of whether you’re in a corporate or startup environment, it’s well worth it to fill out the canvas. I guarantee it’ll force you to think about your approach from a new perspective.

Creative Destruction Amidst the AI Reckoning

Exploring creative destruction in the AI era: How Schumpeter's economic theory reveals the transformative power of innovation and technological disruption in 2025.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/creative-destruction-amidst-the-ai-reckoning

Why this post? ☝️

In 1942, an economist named Joseph Schumpeter coined the the term “creative destruction” to describe his idea that capitalism is “a process of industrial mutation...that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”

This post explore that very concept as it applied to our AI-driven future. And that future is bleak.

Learn to Kill Your (Product) Babies

Discover how to identify, evaluate, and decisively sunset underperforming business units that drain resources, with actionable strategies for innovators ready to make tough product decisions.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/learn-to-kill-your-product-babies

Why this post? ☝️

When I shared this post on LinkedIn, it drove more than 360k impressions. How can I not love that??

The Top Podcast Episodes of 2025

How Alex Fleischer Helps Corporates Find the Right Startup Match

Discover how Alex Fleischer helps Fortune 500 companies navigate startup innovation, break free from pilot purgatory, and transform curiosity into operational change.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/how-alex-fleischer-helps-corporates-find-the-right-startup-match-74ebb14758c9b6fa

Why JT White Hates the Word "Disrupt"

Discover why JT White challenges the overused "disrupt" narrative and explores true innovation's meaning through AI-driven technology and product accessibility.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/why-jt-white-hates-the-word-disrupt

How Bri Brennan is Using AI to Redesign Mental Health Care

Discover how Bri Brennan leverages AI to revolutionize mental health care, predicting struggles before they emerge and transforming healthcare innovation through dynamic digital insights.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/how-bri-brennan-is-using-ai-to-redesign-mental-health-care

The Most Relistened-To Episode of 2025

680 Banks Call This Guy for Innovation Help

Discover how David Peterson, the innovator's innovator, is transforming banking by breaking down legacy barriers and building repeatable innovation strategies for 680+ financial institutions.

www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/680-banks-call-this-guy-for-innovation-help