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Riding Unicorns

What is Corporate Venture Capital and how to do it well with Mike Smeed, Managing Director @ InMotion Ventures with Mike Smeed

“Why CVCs are uniquely positioned to solve automotive's biggest regulatory challenges”

...a CVC saying that, you know, yes. This is a problem. Yes. This is something that we really see. And, actually, we can help because we have a range of technologies. You know, we're we're very well netw

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Riding Unicorns

What is Corporate Venture Capital and how to do it well with Mike Smeed, Managing Director @ InMotion Ventures with Mike Smeed

“The power of a CVC is really in the connections you can make with the parent company to make things happen. My peers who've joined recently come from the parent company because of this.”

...of a CVC is really in the connections that you can make with a parent that to make things happen. So, again, I'm I'm very lucky. We have seven people in our team, five based in London in our offices t

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Business Mechanics4:18 – 4:53

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Inside Carnegie Mellon's $4BN Endowment | Why 90% of LPs Shouldn't Invest in VC | The $140BN Problem with Multi-Stage Funds | The Hidden Math Behind DPI, TVPI, and Illiquidity with Miles Dieffenbach

And while Coda keeps our team aligned, Acuity Scheduling ensures our time stays on track. This show is brought to you by Acuity Scheduling, the flexible scheduling software that helps you focus on what matters most, growing your business. With Acuity

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Inside Carnegie Mellon's $4BN Endowment | Why 90% of LPs Shouldn't Invest in VC | The $140BN Problem with Multi-Stage Funds | The Hidden Math Behind DPI, TVPI, and Illiquidity with Miles Dieffenbach

And while Coda keeps our team aligned, Acuity Scheduling ensures our time stays on track. This show is brought to you by Acuity Scheduling, the flexible scheduling software that helps you focus on what matters most, growing your business. With Acuity

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index's Decacorn Factory | Decision-Making, Investment Process, Biggest Lessons, Biggest Misses | Why Gross Margin is a Fallacy at Seed | Never Turn Down a Deal on Price with Martin Mignot, Partner @ Index Ventures

v c. And while Coda keeps our team aligned, acuity scheduling scheduling ensures our time stays on track. This show is brought to you by Acuity Scheduling, the flexible scheduling software that helps you focus on what matters most, growing your busin

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Lovable Raises at $2BN & Hits $100M ARR | Is Cursor Worth $28BN at $1BN in ARR | How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk | Are Seed Funds F******: Have Mega Funds Won | Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price?

time. I especially love online booking. Clients can book, reschedule, or cancel anytime, and the booking page looks fully branded with my logo and colors. The calendar management tools let me set buffer times and sync with other calendars, so I never

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Lovable Raises at $2BN & Hits $100M ARR | Is Cursor Worth $28BN at $1BN in ARR | How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk | Are Seed Funds F******: Have Mega Funds Won | Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price?

And while Coda keeps our team aligned, Acuity Scheduling ensures our time stays on track. This show is brought to you by Acuity Scheduling, the flexible scheduling software that helps you focus on what matters most, growing your business. With Acuity

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

You know, those receipts that seem to multiply like rabbits in your wallet, the endless email chains asking, can you approve this? And don't even get me started on a month end panic when you realize you have to reconcile it all. Well, Pleo offers sma

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: VCs are Spreadsheet Monkeys and are Commoditised | Why Fees and Carry Misalign GPs and LPs | Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds | Why We Need European Sovereignty More Than Ever with Taavet Hinrikus

Go to shopify.com/20vc to start your $1 per month trial today. That's shopify.com/20vc in letters. And while Shopify helps you drive sales, don't forget what really keeps those customers coming back, trust. Trust isn't just earned though. It's demand

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

Find out more at plio.io/20vc. And don't forget to secure trust with your customers. Trust isn't just earned though, it's demanded. That's why over 9,000 companies including Atlassian, Cora, and Factory rely on Vanta to automate their security compli

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman

Coda matches your working style. Its seamless workspace connects to hundreds of your favorite tools including Salesforce, Jira, Asana, and Figma, helping your teams transform their rituals and do more faster. Head over to coda.io/20vc right now and g

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Scale's Alex Wang on Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance, Why AI is the Greatest Military Asset Ever, Is China Really Two Years Behind the US in AI and Why the CCPs Industrial Approach is Better than Anyone Else's

and is expected to finish 2024 with 1,400,000,000.0 in ARR. Earlier this year, they raised $1,000,000,000 at a reported $14,000,000,000 valuation. And this show was immense. Really, one of my favorite shows to record in recent times. And so let me kn

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: WTF is Going On in VC? Are VCs Still Investing? How Has What VCs Want in Investments Changed? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? Why VCs That Invest in Public Markets Are Losers? Dec 2023; Will It Be Better Or Worse with Jason Lemkin

get a $1,000 start up credit on your first statement. That's coda.io/20vc to sign up and get a start up credit of a thousand dollars? And speaking of tools we cannot live without, you probably know Brex. Brex was the first corporate card for start up

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

20VC: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index's Decacorn Factory | Decision-Making, Investment Process, Biggest Lessons, Biggest Misses | Why Gross Margin is a Fallacy at Seed | Never Turn Down a Deal on Price with Martin Mignot, Partner @ Index Ventures

And while Coda keeps our team aligned, Acuity Scheduling ensures our time stays on track. This show is brought to you by Acuity Scheduling, the flexible scheduling software that helps you focus on what matters most, growing your business. With Acuity

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