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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

Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

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