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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

Balaji Srinivasan, Former CTO of Coinbase. James Gallagher (age 16, Scotland): The 16-year-old created Open Commit, a servicewhere software developers receive on-demand, actionable reviews of code from other expert software developers. Commercializing ideas goes far beyond technology.

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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.29.16

Planview

Harnessing Digital Disruption will Drive Innovation Cross Industries. The skinny: Peter Gunder, Chief Business Development Officer at American Family Insurance, talks about the impact digitalization has had on the insurance company, and how the focus of agile innovation has helped accelerate its digitization efforts.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. These high-energy events are much more than people working collaboratively on a brilliant idea using software and hardware to solve a problem. Disrupt HR! Code Monk, Wordsworth, Flash, and Optimus.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Elon Musk Blows My Mind

CorporateIntel

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. He makes disruption make sense. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him. Not Elon Musk. Not exactly a path to retirement.