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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.

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

And the beneath-the-surface rumblings were about how it was screwing up the venture capital business model. But entrepreneurs, meanwhile, were looking for a lot less. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. No, I don’t have data.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Well, the first group of winners will undoubtedly be the tens of millions of American entrepreneurs - and eventually hundreds of millions of worldwide - that for the first time in human history will have access to on-demand capital for their creative and future-focused projects and initiatives. These businesses - think of the Inc.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Webinar Description: Entrepreneurial and Investment Opportunities in Fintech You’re invited to listen to a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, where a select group of Fintech entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space. Mr. Alo Ghosh.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I’ll talk about all that in a future post.