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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. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Mari has been a serial intrapreneur for a large part of her career. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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

Agile VC

food trucks, farmers market vendors, small retailers, event organizers, etc), most of whom previously didn’t accept credit cards. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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