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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

No matter what, there will be many areas you don’t understand—and to be successful, you’ll need to lean on other experts to help you out. In the startup world, things change almost every day; you’ll have to worry about changing consumer attitudes, new competitors, disintermediating technology and constantly emerging information.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. 475 of those have been formed in the last 5 years, according to Global Corporate Venturing. Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast.