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

Harvard Business Review

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Finally, corporate VCs are unable to pitch the promise of a self-fulfilling prophecy the way successful private VCs can.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. ” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In Rich’s old, functional “silo-based” process, a marketing person with a new customer opportunity would contact their favorite R&D associate, the regulatory and quality assurance departments, packaging, and the plant.

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Morning Advantage: One Entrepreneur Who Will Not Be Rushed

Harvard Business Review

But Palmer Luckey, now 20, is taking his own sweet time to market — which he’s free to do since his funding comes strings-free from Kickstarter. Called Oculus Rift, it caused a sensation at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Reporters and gamers are clamoring for it. Right now, he’s releasing it only as a developers’ kit. “It