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While CVCs may provide capital now, they sometimes end their commitment abruptly, spooking your other investors. It pays to research their track records. For many ventures, receiving outside Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Joseph Cabral , Shyam Kumar and Haemin Dennis Park
In 2000, when I was on the Board of Directors at Best Buy, the company decided to launch online shopping. The Best Buy founder and then-CEO Dick Schulze was ready to make a multimillion-dollar Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James C Wetherbe
Many large corporations are making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in tech startups. While the innovation benefits for these corporations have received much attention in the business Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Yannick Bammens and Jakob Lilienweiss
Corporate funding helps make business/entrepreneurial research relevance and practicality by ensuring market value of the results (Eckhardt and Wetherbe). However, many university Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Author: James C Wetherbe
Versare, which makes portable walls, fold-down beds, and similar products for businesses and institutions, is an entrepreneurial venture in crisis. They have received a fax from a distributor that Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Author: David Deeds