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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. We had 6 term sheets in no time. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. Don’t drink it. We closed a $16.5