Summary of September 2010’s deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement.
Category: Analysis
How to retain the value in buying portfolio companies
Companies are best when portfolio out their corporate venturing unit’s portfolio when the division is managed independently.
Hard lessons learned in the education sector
Profile: Kaplan VC, which was launched as venturing division of Washington Post Company’s education subsidiary Kaplan earlier this year.
The South African press
REview of the transformation of South Africa’s press between 1994 and 2004.
Naspers transforms itself through venturing
Profile: Naspers, a South Africa-based media conglomerate has become perhaps the country’s most successful post-apartheid business on the back of a global diversification strategy through corporate venturing and acquisitions.
Intel’s Smart decision reaps its long-term rewards
Case study: Smart Technologies shows how to successfully venture invest for more than a decade.
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.
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
Deal round-up: August 2010
Table of investments, exits, M&A and flotations during August 2010, as published on www.globalcorporateventuring.com