As part of a series of interviews with leading innovation and venture developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Graeme Martin (pictured), president of Takeda Ventures.
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Back to school for corporate venturing
There’s a right way to win, but a fast track to failure
Steamboat shows right direction
As a result, this past week’s exit activity shows the continuing strong performance by, among others, Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, which has sold 56.com in China – and made more than double its money – and virtual currency Sometrics to American Express for about five times the amount invested.
Founders tie venture investing together
Personal investment vehicles have been recently taking minority stakes in companies likely to be of interest to corporate venturers.
Governments unfairly penalise corporates
The legacy of the credit crunch should not be further opportunities for regulatory and tax arbitrage but a re-examination of the systemic factors that underpinned it – starting with reliance on debt and roadblocks in the way of innovation, including limits on corporate venturing.
Ecosystem needs all to do well
Solyndra’s collapse and Eckstein’s shift from venture capital to corporate venturer heralds the times.
Eight tips for wise investing
After decades of on-again, off-again forays into corporate venturing, corporations have turned their engines on again.
Corporate pain management by Dr ChiChi Mitchell
Strategic investments that are no longer strategic
Shared value for entrepreneur and corporate
How an entrepreneur views strategic partnerships
Patterns are made to be broken
Patterns are created in our childhood – the repetition of these patterns is what creates comfort, a sense of knowing and a sense of self.
Gaule’s Question Time: BASF Venture Capital
As part of a series of interviews with leading innovation and venture developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Dr Josef Wu?nsch, managing director, BASF Venture Capital.
A time of transformation
Media industry undergoing systemic change to content production, delivery and monetisation turns to corporate venturing for solutions.
Jobs goes, will Apple look to venture?
Apple products, perhaps most notably the iPad, the iPhone and the Mac, have provided some of the biggest opportunities for companies generally to piggyback off great corporate product design. In the world of technology there has been a symbiotic relationship between providers of content for such mother ships, firstly personal computers, then the internet itself… Continue reading Jobs goes, will Apple look to venture?
The times they are a-changin’
“The chance won’t come again/ And don’t speak too soon/ For the wheel’s still in spin/ And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’/ For the loser now will be later to win/ For the times they are a-changin.'”
Bob Dylan, 1963