It seems there really is nothing new under the sun. “Corporate ventures” is a concept as old as corporates themselves.Traditionally a corporate venture is defined as a large company taking a minority interest in a smaller company, generally in a related field. The...
We’ve touched on Chris Anderson’s celebrated 2009 book “Free” a few times in previous posts. Not the easiest read (there’s a lot of technical detail that can be difficult to follow) the book is actually based on another, equally celebrated (and luckily for us, much...
There are many great insights from the How Google Works book that Google book that I am sure that I will refer to on these blogs. One of the first is about communicating in fact the importance of over communicating. I have been involved in organisations at both end...
Over the summer I read a couple of great books. How Google Works and Zero to One. Both books were great reads and there are a number of common themes: Think about the platform Think global scale Hire the best talent Etc The theme I want to draw on is...
