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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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

Agile VC

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. A couple conceivable scenarios that could bring us to the mobile payments promised land.

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