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Acquisition or Alliance: Choosing the Right Path for Corporate-Startup Collaboration

Choosing the right mix of venture-ownership and startup engagement is essential to the long-term success of every modern corporation. Consider these key points.

Strategy

The 4 golden rules of corporate venture scaling

Scaling is the most challenging venture milestone. Follow these rules and you'll conquer it.

Trends

10 ways corporations can make money in the metaverse

Want to get in on the metaverse action? Here's how you can leverage it to create new revenue streams.

Trends

What is the metaverse and why should corporations care?

Wondering what all the metaverse hype is about? Find out why it might just be the future of business.

Trends

22 customer trends and predictions influencing 2022

Not the usual trends. We've dived deep to uncover the triggers influencing customer behaviour in 2022.

Strategy

How to Set Up a Corporate Venturing Unit: 7 Tips for Success

Build a venturing unit that delivers true business value.

Techniques

How to create a winning corporate venture pitch deck in 9 proven steps.

A step-by-step roadmap so you can build your own irresistible corporate venture pitch deck.

Examples

BASF’s Chemovator: Turning bold ideas into thriving ventures

How Chemovator is helping BASF create a culture of innovation, engage employees and turn promising ideas into new revenue streams.

Examples

Capital One's The Lab: Exploring the Intersection of Emerging Technology and Finance

How Capital One’s The Lab is incubating, accelerating and investing in the startups that are paving the way for its future.

Examples

Walmart's Store N°8: Building ventures that are shaping the future of retail

How Store N°8 is helping Walmart fuel innovation from within through its accelerated incubation model.

Techniques

5 Tips to Find and Recruit B2B Customers for Concept Validation

Validation is a critical part of building any venture, but actually finding the customers you need to validate a B2B product/service is a whole challenge on it's own.

Examples

PagoFX by Santander: Making international money transfers easier than ever

How Santander was able to leverage its years of industry know-how, international customer base, and brand name to build an innovative fintech startup.