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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Corporate venturing is venture capital, not corporate financial asset management.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. With now over one thousand active U.S. This all costs money. So what to do?