The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

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. It was also recommended that communication is streamlined, with agile operations developed to allow for maximum adaptability to the changing environment.

Venture Funding 127

Venture Funding Short-term Long-term Innovation 127

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. A second challenge is to find the right startups to partner with, especially if you’re operating in an environment where there aren’t a ready supply of high profile startups beating a path to your door.

Incubator 80

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 80

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. As Pets.com learned in the last bubble, such a strategy works just fine until you run out of other people's money to spend on growth.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. Another possibility may be corporate venture funds , which often have the technical expertise to evaluate hard tech investments.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

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.” Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Unfortunately, Microsoft tied its tablet concepts to its Windows operating system and made them merely pen-enabled personal computers, so these products remained a tiny niche of the computing industry. Venture funds create a basic thesis about what industries will grow, and then they place a lot of inexpensive bets and give start-ups leeway.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12