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Mastering the Game: Corporate Executives and the Art of Startup Investment

Leapfrogging

CVC units often focus on securing a competitive advantage by investing in startups with innovative technologies or business models that align with the corporation’s strategic goals. By engaging with and investing in startups, companies can gain insights into emerging technologies, trends, and business practices.

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Corporations and startups operate differently by nature due to the differences in their culture and business environment. Difference in approach to disruption.

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Toward a New Horizon Model

Moves the Needle

Innovator’s take: Horizon 2 is defined as “incremental” innovation , which typically means modifying existing products or technology to create new markets, or applying external technology in new ways. New take: It’s arbitrary to declare that an “incremental” change to a product takes 3-5 years. This means finance.

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Transformation on pandemics: what?s really new?

Innovation Excellence

Hard not to be excited by all of it when it comes from people like me that have been working with digital technology for several years. Unfortunately we are still far from a disruption in all this digital arena. Due to the high volume of information and articles that we read and listen to everyday, opinions are really disposable.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. In the spring of 1920 with company had to go to the banks and he got an $80 million loan (about a billion dollars in 2018) to finance operations.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. The rise of Alternative Finance. Every industry is undergoing some level of disruption and for some its more extreme and happening faster than others. Conclusion. Click and Connect with the Author: LinkedIn.

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The Banks Guide to scouting Fintech

Matthew Griffin

This was the scene at the Finextra Future of Finance 2015 event held in London’s Canary Wharf this week but for all the bravado and chit chat there was one question on every Fintech’s lips – “How do I get my Fintech adopted by or noticed by a bank?”.