IBM Banks On Small Start-Ups For Big Growth

Streetline Inc. has been selling its parking-sensor technology for only a year and it has just 30 employees, but International Business Machines Corp. is depending on it and hundreds of young start-ups like it to reach ambitious financial targets. A parking-guide application from Streetline, one of several young start-ups leveraging relationships with IBM. By 2015, IBM expects to add about $30 billion to its 2010 revenue of $99.9 billion, a challenging goal considering it grew its annual sales by around $10 billion over the past decade. To get there it is relying on relationships with ventu
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Strategic Venture Association

Started and organized by professionals involved in Corporate Venturing in 2003, SVA has 306 members representing 98 global corporations. It is a not-
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Raising Capital from Strategic Investors

The term ‘strategic investor’ refers to a company that has a primary business of something other than investing, but invests, from time to time, in
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VC Confidential: Bootcamp: Strategic Investors

During the bubble, companies and VC’s actively sought out strategic investors for the “C” and “D” series of financings. They relied on the “irr
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The Lowdown on Strategic Investments

A fast-growing company recently called me up for some advisory work. One of its main competitors, a multibillion-dollar company, was making overtures f
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