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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

Last year researchers from IESE highlighted the value of corporate venturing. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. Crossing the valley.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches.

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More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat

Harvard Business Review

Much of this activity is driven by a handful of highly active funds at firms like Intel, Google, and Qualcomm. But the number of corporate venture funds doing deals each quarter has increased about 50% since 2012. None of this is to say that starting a corporate VC fund is a bad idea.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

One of its boldest moves was the 2013 acquisition of The Climate Corporation, which was founded by two former Google engineers who built on 30 years of free government weather data to help underwrite weather-related risks.

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