Curated articles and opinions covering corporate growth, investment, innovation, and M&A from the Akin Network and beyond.
Territory 2020 Reel
Featured films include: Blade Runner 2049, The Martian, Ready Player One, and more.
This ingenious airline seat will make flying coach less awful.
Luke Miles never felt comfortable in an economy airline seat. As founder and CCO for the U.K. design studio New Territory, …
Seed Investing Macrotrends: An Interview with Kelli Fontaine from Cendana Capital
Recently, Silicon Foundry had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with Kelli Fontaine from Cendana Capital, a $1B AUM fund-of-funds that exclusively focuses on investing in Pre-seed and Seed VC funds.
Filming the Super Bowl and managing your own top talent culture.
Complacency doesn’t just affect employee cultures that are less than competent; it breeds in employee cultures that are extremely competent.
Your Data-Driven Marketing Is Harmful. I Should Know: I Ran Marketing at Google and Instagram
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was about to join my very last “performance calibration session.” This was late in 2018, when I was a managing director at Instagram…
How Venture Capital Became Intel’s Answer to ‘Massive Disruption’
For many Silicon Valley companies, investing in venture capital is nothing new. Intel pioneered the practice—since 1991, it has invested more than $12 billion through its Intel Capital unit.
Big Corporations Are Rushing Into Venture Capital. That May Not Be a Good Thing.
When Jim Adler joined Toyota Motor, he had never before worked for a car company. But Adler had something Toyota wanted badly: experience in venture capital.
Tapping the benefits of Venture Capital-as-a-Service
There have never been more sources of funding for startups than there are today. The best entrepreneurs have many options when it comes to financing their business…
The Four Characteristics Of Successful Intrapreneurs.
Corporate innovation is slowly becoming a profession. Becoming an intrapreneur is increasingly a realistic career option for a number of people.