CREATORS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Read on to see whether venture building is the right tool for your organization. What is a Venture Builder (a.k.a. Venture builder is a fairly new concept that proposes a structured and intentional development of a company in a “controlled” environment and usually with more ventures being built at the same time.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

MAY 11, 2021

The Heart is a corporate center for digital ventures, joining forces with leading multinationals to build enterprise startups - future suppliers, partners, distributors and disruptors- and unleashing value added services for big companies.

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Peer Insight

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

After 15 years of helping big companies design, develop, and launch new growth initiatives , we’ve found that those companies who fall in love with customer problems and fund venture teams find success much faster (and more often). Venture : A risky or daring journey or undertaking. Need help powering a new venture? definition.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A new partnership between Qmarkets and New York-based innovation and venture strategy firm Arable Ventures will provide a specialized innovation solution for enterprises across North America comprising both strategic consultancy services and dedicated software. About Qmarkets Managing innovation in large organizations is never easy.

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Collectivecamp

AUGUST 20, 2023

In this article, we explore the reasons behind startups' reluctance to engage with CVC funds and offer insights into how CVC fund managers can establish trust and foster meaningful partnerships.

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Collectivecamp

AUGUST 20, 2023

In today's relentlessly evolving corporate landscape, mere sustenance isn’t a viable strategy. The urgent call to adapt is echoing louder than ever, compelling corporations to either advance or face the risk of becoming redundant.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. This form of venture capital is characterized by its dual objectives of achieving financial returns and strategic value.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Understanding Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) refers to the investment of corporate funds directly into external startup companies. The Role of CVC in Corporate Growth and Innovation CVC plays a pivotal role in driving corporate growth and fostering innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Role of Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is an investment made by a corporation into a startup that is outside its normal operations. This venture arm operates at the intersection of corporations and the startup ecosystem , and has become a strategic tool for companies to foster innovation and growth.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Furthermore, by participating in the startup ecosystem through corporate venture capital initiatives, companies not only gain access to new technologies but also to the entrepreneurial talent that can fuel corporate innovation strategies. More about fostering startup innovation can be found through this link.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 13, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Rob Lowe, head of Value Creation and Marketing at LEGO Ventures. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:00 – What is LEGO Ventures and its purpose: Play can be a great basis of learning. 00:05:00 – What makes an investment interesting for LEGO.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Establishing product-market fit is critical for any new corporate venture, but that's just one component of successful corporate venture building. To be successful, a venture must also match its mother company’s strategy at a given time. Why Is Corporate-Venture Alignment So Important?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

This building Business Ecosystems in thinking and design, does overtime, takes on a shape that provides a radical journey of co-creating, innovating and positioning value to seize different, more significant opportunities than being capable of achieving in any offer as a single organization. Let’s offer some of these here.

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The Human Factor

JULY 30, 2019

Building a venture which can cope with this isn’t any harder than working to create something which will work with individuals, but you will have to take different steps along the way. With all of this in mind, you should be feeling much better prepared to get to work on the time you put into building a B2B company.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

These days, innovation has become, far too often, solipsistic and self-referential, pursued for the glory of the innovators themselves rather than for the benefit of anyone else and there is increasing evidence the venture-funded entrepreneurship model is crowding out more productive investments. The recent CHIPS Bill is a good start.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Innov8rs | Eight in ten surveyed CEOs report new-business building as a top five priority despite recent heightened economic volatility. Still, organizations will need to more than double their rate of business building to achieve leaders’ expectations that 29 percent of revenue in 2027 will come from new businesses.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2023

The good news is that they can drive growth while tackling the world’s biggest problems through green venture building. However, many struggle to effectively execute on their green venturing endeavors. How can corporates overcome the challenges of green venture building? What Is Green Venturing?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Startup Accelerators Fit into Corporate Venture Capital Corporate venture capital (CVC) is a form of equity investment that involves corporations making direct investments in startup companies. CVC is not only about financial returns but also strategic alignment that can drive innovation within the investing company.

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HYPE Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2018

And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building innovation capital lacks the focus it deserves. If you Google “innovation capital” for instance, you tend to get venture capital companies as search results offering financial capital and hijacking this term. In fact, it isn’t even on most people's radar.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

A key enabler is to build a culture of ambidexterity within the organization, where there is a balance between exploiting existing assets and exploring new opportunities. Technical and Market Uncertainty Breakthrough innovation ventures into uncharted territories, often pushing the boundaries of current knowledge and market understanding.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Maximizing Venture-Backed Company Success: The Importance of VC Investment in Operating Partners Venture capital (VC) firms have long been a key source of funding for startup companies, providing the necessary capital to help these businesses grow and succeed.

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Innov8rs

JUNE 4, 2023

However, a new approach is gaining momentum: venture clienting. As venture clients, corporates engage with startups as clients rather than as investors, partners, or parent companies. They also shared practical insights on establishing a Venture Client Unit within your organization, as summarized below. What’s A Venture Client?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2023

They recommend starting by using commercial success to prompt small, one-time defense contracts, partnering with existing defense channels, and building a dedicated sales team. These tactics will bring the company recurring revenue and venture funding more quickly.

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Sometimes we need to venture out of the church and mix with the heathens. What we can do, however, is identify common ground upon which to build a shared future. We can be clear about where we stand and still listen to those who see things differently. That doesn’t mean we compromise.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The second part of this episode delves into the fascinating world of corporate venturing and organizational adaptability with insights from a research paper that Kumuda co-authored titled, “Enhancing Organizational Adaptability through Corporate Venturing.”

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

What the Empress did not know is that these villages were nothing more than facades which looked like buildings from the distance of the river. Each night while the Empress slept, Potemkin’s subjects would pack up the facades, move them along to the next stop on the river and build them up again to look like another village.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Leaders must spot, try to understand the emerging story and build the narrative to successfully guide the organization onto a different pathway to the future. A narrative that builds on passion, courage, imagination and commitment to undertake needs to be highly compelling.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 11, 2023

He highlights key moments in each person's journey that helped them succeed and offers valuable lessons that can apply to any business venture. His insights are invaluable for anyone looking to take an idea and start their business or take their existing venture to the next level.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Yet, a few years ago, they realized that rather than keeping and building new ventures internally, their talents often decided to leave the company and start their businesses outside. Intrapreneurs then undergo a rigorous incubation process that involves rapidly creating, testing, and validating their prototypes and building an MVP.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s essential to be more proactive in identifying focus areas that guide the technology scouting process and in shaping corporate venturing guidelines that are in line with strategic imperatives. I help organizations build a sustainable culture of innovation. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Tim Kastelle

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The program is designed to support female entrepreneurs – specifically, to support women that are developing ventures designed to address some of the other SDGs. The money is pooled together and loaned out at zero percent interest to five women-led Ventures selected by the Activators. And it’s not a completely new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

He currently serves as president of Archer Gray’s Co-Lab division, focusing on building businesses via venture investments. But despite that impressive resume, it hasn’t always been easy.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 14, 2018

However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. Special thank you to Correlation Ventures and Seth Levine for making this data public, and for Alex Osterwalder for the post which brought this to my attention.]. The Statistics: 65% of investments failed to make a return on investment.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporates can’t build everything themselves- no matter how good they think they are. From CVC funds to joint ventures and from M&A to free and paid pilots, anything is possible when large organizations seek to collaborate with startups. Joint Ventures (e.g., the next funding round after seed funding) fail.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. Are we leveraging fully what is available to us to build better innovation concepts? This post explains this thinking, and validation and provides the way I envisage this.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

“People have missed seeing one another and crave opportunities to have more meaningful conversations beyond the day-to-day tasks,” notes Katelin Holloway, founding partner at venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Koslow notes that companies need to build trust in order to foster employee engagement. People need to feel secure.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

Now I have a venture fund that I started with two other women where I invest capital to support and grow businesses at the early stage, addressing climate change. What I’m seeing through my work in venture [capitalism] is things that will never reach a consumer — things that they’ll never see — but that they’ll benefit from.

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