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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

And high profile exits on deals like Nest , WhatsApp , and Occulus - where fund investors saw returns in excess of 20x their original investments - have caught the public''s fancy as to the power of startup and emerging company investing. So it should come as no surprise that a lot of folks want in on the action. So what to do?