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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. That was an important part of our “social proof&# that we had built interesting technology. If you have a “lead&# investor agreed then the price is already set and you don’t have to worry about price. This also happens with VCs.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.