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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. It''s like that. It doesn''t have to be this way.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. It’s like that.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.