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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Internal R&D, labs, incubators, accelerators, corporate and business development, and M&A all play important roles in helping corporations innovate. I posted a summary of this at PeHub.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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VentureGeek’s Graduate 6Scan Gets Funded by YL Ventures

VC Cafe

A few weeks ago we covered 6scan as part of the first graduating class of VentureGeeks , an Israeli startup incubator. Still in stealth mode, 6scan offers a SaaS security protection suite for websites through its main products: 6scan Patrol and 6scan Bodyguard.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #6: Capture the history of your amazing journey

Austin Startup

And I’ve made sure to set the tone as our CEO by sharing these in our #history channel in Slack. It was one of the first channels we created in Slack, and it is really amazing to go back to the beginning of our journey and see the historical journal that has been captured since. So, taking photos has been easy.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Serbinski has since gone on to invest in a handful of stealth startups in the gaming, mobile and location arenas. . Vaynerchuk also recommends self-funding the incubation process, unless the industry you’re in is about to explode.