corporate-venturing 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. He just hired Meg Whitman. IPOs dried up.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. We’re excited about the Metaverse at Remagine Ventures and the potential it has to bring people together.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. What’s holding large companies back?
David Teten
JULY 25, 2017
For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Event planning is a lucrative venture that should be given the credit it deserves. When people are searching for services, the first source of information is the internet. If you are competent at what you do, your clients will most likely refer other people to you. Photo by Jakob Dalbjörn on Unsplash. Know Your Target Market.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
I was interviewed by Philip Bouchard , Executive Director of TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship Advisory , about how entrepreneurship education has changed, mission-driven entrepreneurship, and what we’ve learned about corporate innovation. How has innovation in large corporations evolved over the last 10 years? Worth a read.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again. Need for growth capital.
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