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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). . Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

And the beneath-the-surface rumblings were about how it was screwing up the venture capital business model. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. That’s where venture capital is normally strong. No, I don’t have data.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

All of a sudden, it is boom time again for venture capital funds, with over $10.3 billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012. But for the individual investor, is investing in a venture capital fund really a good idea? Here’s why: Market Efficiency.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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The Biggest & Boldest Undertaking of 2018

Growthink Blog

Jeff Bezos will bring his hyper focus on the end customer experience, and then how to apply technology to make that experience as quick, delightful, and consistent as possible. Through a re-examining and re-engineering of how our businesses utilize technology to deliver more value to our customers at a lower cost?

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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna

Growthink Blog

For CVS and Aetna, theirs is a bold strategic stroke to build a more efficient healthcare delivery model in sync with our information economy and technological age. a bare minimum simply having a viable alternative to the so complex, byzantine, bloated, institutionalized system that is modern healthcare has to be an unambiguously good thing.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

And in so doing they created a powerful recurring revenue business model based as much on their organizational design as on their marketing and technology prowess. Franchising is a great “old school” way of accomplishing this and Uber the ultimate 21st century technological way to do so.