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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

VCs needed to invest hundreds of millions of dollars every couple of years, and liked to go into groups and syndications, which meant they wanted deals for a few millions dollars. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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