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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation Part 4: Setting Up a CVC Organization

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation Part 4: Setting Up a CVC Organization

By Evangelos Simoudis on February 9, 2015

In the previous post I introduced a five-dimensional framework to employ while setting up a corporate venture group and discussed in detail two of its dimensions: strategy and people. The corporation must establish a long-term strategy for its venture group. As part of this strategy it must create a set of objectives, formulate an investment […]

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation Part 3: Setting Up a CVC Organization

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation Part 3: Setting Up a CVC Organization

By Evangelos Simoudis on January 6, 2015

In the first part of the series on corporate venture capital I explored how the disruption of institutional VCs (IVCs) and the imperative for corporations to innovate provide an opportunity to corporate VCs (CVCs) to make their mark in the startup ecosystem and be viewed as viable and valuable financing sources to private companies. In […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, CVCinnov, disruptive innovation, innovation, startup, vc, Venture Capital

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Part 2: Will the Big Numbers Result In Big Success this Time?

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Part 2: Will the Big Numbers Result In Big Success this Time?

By Evangelos Simoudis on November 24, 2014

I started writing these posts with the hypothesis that in their effort to innovate, corporations must re-invent the traditional R&D model with one that augments the R&D efforts with venture investments, acquisitions, strategic partnerships and startup incubation. Corporate VCs (CVCs) are expected to play a big role in this innovation quest. With that in mind […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, CVCinnov, disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, startup, Venture Capital

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Initiatives

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Initiatives

By Evangelos Simoudis on October 13, 2014

A large corporation recently requested my advice on how to set up and structure their venture fund, which they wanted to base in Silicon Valley. This corporation had initially set up a venture fund in the late ‘90s to invest in Internet startups. By 2002 they closed down the fund after determining that its portfolio […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, Corporate Venture Capital, CVCinnov, disruptive innovation, Dot-com bubble, Entrepreneurship, innovation, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital

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