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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

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These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

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Most of this initial period has been focused on the build-out of core infrastructure: ubiquitous broadband (Cisco, Qualcomm), information search (Yahoo, AOL), mobile & cloud computing (Apple, Samsung, AWS), and the social mesh (Facebook) laid on top. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end.