Case study: Smart Technologies shows how to successfully venture invest for more than a decade.
Month: August 2010
Profile: Steamboat navigates to venture success
Profile of Steamboat Ventures, Disney’s highly successful corporate venturing unit.
Playdom enters Disney’s magic kingdom
Case study of Disney, the world’s largest media group’s, acquisition of social gaming company Playdom from investors, including corporate venturing unit Steamboat Ventures.
C-suite insights: Patrick McGovern, founder of IDG
Patrick McGovern, founder and chairman of International Data Group, discusses launching a venturing unit, in China, and his plans for the future.
Singapore becomes media fund haven
Though media has grown in economic importance, few countries have sponsored funds to boost innovation across a broad part of the industry beyond niche areas, such as film-making. One to have significantly invested in the sector is Singapore.
Media groups venture their way into the future
Media companies face a rise in disruptive business models and technological innovation
Media industry to continue outpacing US economy
US media sector to continue growing faster than economy.
Independents can embrace the corporate imperative
The challenge is meshing apparently nonaligned strategies. Question and answer with Reed Elsevier Ventures.
Will the robots take over from human instinct?
Venture investors appear to defy the dominant scientific approaches
Gaule’s Question Time: Hewlett-Packard prints its way to success
In the third of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Sridhar Solur, director of Mobility Solutions at HP who is leading the ePrint venture.
Russian dolls – the mother of all web strategies
Facebook’s increasing dominance poses for Google and other internet-focused companies a sort of Facebook versus Rest of Web (RoW) challenge.
Challenges of content and delivery remain
People broadly share the same characteristics of wanting to learn and teach, work collaboratively and for others, and communicate.
Deal round-up: August 2010
Table of investments, exits, M&A and flotations during August 2010, as published on www.globalcorporateventuring.com
Most influential media corporate venturing units
Global Corporate Venturing ranks the most influential venture units at media companies.