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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

ACH is an outgrowth of the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire system and was never intended for merchant payments (it was designed to replace paper drafts for certain interbank transfers like direct deposit). Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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