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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

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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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