CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: March 20, 2003. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Reports emerged this week that Apple has begun the process of scrubbing the social sphere of all trace of iTunes. So far, all of the social media content from Facebook and Instagram pages has disappeared, though its Twitter account still has content for the time being. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

State of Innovation Report. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Many are still in wide usage today. Efficiency of marketing spend and ad targeting.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Eldercare has long been a target for technological innovation, with advocates highlighting the practical and infrastructural challenges presented by 73M baby boomers aging into their retirement years.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. Both Lefkofsky (with Groupon) and Kleiner Perkins (with Cerent) were able to win so big in part because they had hands-on operational roles in their investments. When Snap Inc.

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