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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

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. food trucks, farmers market vendors, small retailers, event organizers, etc), most of whom previously didn’t accept credit cards. So not a new store of value and this is basically scenario #1 described above.

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