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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. I posted a summary of this at PeHub.

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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna

Growthink Blog

For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. For CVS , the fear of Amazon coming into their market and squeezing them , as they have done to so many others , so hard that margins just evaporate.