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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

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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.”. When it comes to governance, putting operating heads on portfolio company boards hasn’t worked.

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

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Government fiat. carriers, Google, et al) covet an economic stream they believe they can take a slice of.

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