Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds
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#2I didnt think much into this until the start up of a friend(yc backed, if i am not mistaken) failed. They did have their own venture fund to boost up the drone companies, but eventually they shut down.
Good thing to look out for.
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#3From an operations perspective, this is for Business Intelligence and creating a funnel for acquisitions.
Venture is one of the best ways to spot trends in your own market(s), and lead run any future competition with an acquisition, new product or product changes.
This is one of the major things that distinguishes major 21st century companies today from major companies in the past. If you know all of the up and coming competitors, or an entire new market that could threaten you, you can't be disrupted.
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#4From an operations perspective, this is for Business Intelligence and creating a funnel for acquisitions. Venture is one of the best ways to spot trends in your own market(s), and lead run any future competition with an acquisition, new product or product changes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes major 21st century companies today from major companies in the past. If you know all of the up and comin…
Also it makes sense if you're a platform, or you're an infrastructure company. You're motivated to help startups building on your platform succeed, or help prove an entirely new category you're building infrastructure for. See Stripe and Coinbase doing that now.
Re: Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds
#5From an operations perspective, this is for Business Intelligence and creating a funnel for acquisitions. Venture is one of the best ways to spot trends in your own market(s), and lead run any future competition with an acquisition, new product or product changes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes major 21st century companies today from major companies in the past. If you know all of the up and comin…
Microsoft knew all about Google
Yahoo knew everything about Google
Google knew everything about Facebook
Intel knew everything about ARM
Yet disruption ensued. “Can’t be disrupted” is foolish.
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#6A lot of blockchain tech startups raise money and then turn around and invest in other startups.
I think we're gonna look back at this in 5 years and collectively say, what were we thinking?
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#7No better evidence you’re in a bubble market if the billions flowing into self-driving cars and blockchain didn’t convince you. If investors are willing for their startups to use their capital in this way then there really is just way too much money floating around.
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#8What happens to the unicorn's equity stake in a unicorn-backed company if the unicorn itself goes out of business? Does that equity get re-distributed to the unicorn's investors?
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#9So Silicon Valley’s version of the CDO or better yet and the even worse — synthetic CDO
Re: Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds
#10From an operations perspective, this is for Business Intelligence and creating a funnel for acquisitions. Venture is one of the best ways to spot trends in your own market(s), and lead run any future competition with an acquisition, new product or product changes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes major 21st century companies today from major companies in the past. If you know all of the up and comin…
Microsoft knew all about Google Yahoo knew everything about Google Google knew everything about Facebook Intel knew everything about ARM Yet disruption ensued. “Can’t be disrupted” is foolish.
This theory basically assumes that firms cannot get smarter over time.
It assumes corporations will never get better at evaluating the market and their place in it, or have better information than previous generations.
That's a dangerous assumption, and doesn't seem to jibe with what we see in practice.