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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . The alternative model is to set up a dedicated venture fund and even supplement it with outside limited partners.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Social Media Monitoring – requires the possibility of integrating with a CRM technology. Customer Analytics – including text/sentiment analytics; voice based analytics; social media analytics, influencer scoring, etc. Partner Relationship Management. Customer Service – all permutations. Mobile CRM. Innovation Management.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

For those of you who don’t know Terence Kawaja, he is one of the most influential (and funny) social media advisors around, and is also very experienced at investment banking. His opinion in social media makes waves across the investment world, influencing heavily where money will flow. There is disintermediation going on.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled.