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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. They act in the interest of their portfolio companies like any investor would.

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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

If you are serious about your long-term success, then you may consider publishing a weekly or monthly newsletter with updates on current mortgage rates, changes in real estate laws, benefits of homeownership, how to develop a real estate investment portfolio, health checks on the local market, and so on. Plan for success.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

Our consumer portfolio has largely been focused around convenience. M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers. Flash sales companies were momentarily able to offer this, as were daily deal companies.