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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They used to come in at series B and later.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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