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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. Internal R&D, labs, incubators, accelerators, corporate and business development, and M&A all play important roles in helping corporations innovate. billion to the startup ecosystem.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns.

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Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere Show No. 1: Richard Witten and Kathryn Minshew

Steve Blank

Richard Witten , is a former General Partner at Goldman Sachs with with 35+ years of experience in the global capital marketplace. … The deal was that the city would give most of this island, to Stanford, if Stanford would set up computer science, engineering school east. Now, neither NYU nor Columbia really want the space. …

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Idea to Product Competition April 2010

entrepreMusings

So here’s a copy of what I wrote for the Austin Technology Incubator blog on the Idea to Product Competition I judged last weekend: Idea to Product Competition April 2010. In the Idea to Product® Competition students create links between emerging technologies and market needs required to support later stages of commercialization.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Was this going to happen anyway?

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and Said another way, JuiceBox Hero is older than this leading incubator of ECE innovation. <?—?That’s So sign me up for innovating on use cases or mapping intelligence logic for women and people of color (you know, the global majority!).

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Fourth, in the last decade, corporate investors and hedge funds have jumped into later stage investing with a passion. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory. Where is it going? the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21st century.

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