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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. They are making substantial exits and are not just cost centers.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.

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