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The Importance Of Trademarks To Startups

The Horizons Tracker

In total, they assessed over 55,000 trademarks registered by firms that had received backing from VCs between 1985-2015. The data showed that trademarks often helped obtain better terms when raising finance, and were generally a good predictor of future success, both as a private firm and later on when they go public.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed.