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Google To Launch Venture Fund
- sdpurtill 18y agoThis seems like such an obvious thing to do if you're a huge tech company, why hasn't MSFT or YHOO done this yet? I have a hard time thinking this is a good thing, the last thing we need is Google dominating the VC market.
- ericwan 18y agoI'm pretty sure MSFT has a venture wing. So is Intel
- dcurtis 18y agoNokia has huge interests in VCs.
- bigbang 18y agoYahoo has the brickhouse, but its not external though. Employees could come up with start ideas, take "time off" from their project for say 6months and build it. But ofcourse its a Yahoo property, but not really yours.
- andreyf 18y agowhy hasn't MSFT or YHOO done this yet? As other people have pointed out, they might have. I imagine the reason it isn't successful is the same reason government sponsorship of startups isn't successful - bureaucracies tend to not work very well when it comes to having to often admit mistakes and changing course - sunk costs bias and all that.
- dgabriel 18y agoIn 2000, I briefly worked for a start up that was funded by a Lycos incubator. I'm almost positive that most big tech companies have similar programs. here's an old article about it - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/1380.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/1380.html
- zasz 18y agoI wish I could downmod for the overly sensational title. So Google's doing something that a lot of other big tech companies do, so what? If the article had said Google was starting a YC-clone, that would've been something.
- ericwan 18y agothe title is very link-baitish
- immad 18y agoYeah. Someone should change the title. Very misleading and not title of OP
- volida 18y agoit's an iritating title
- yangyang42 18y agoI agree, but I also find it a little humorous. I don't think it's such a big deal.
- ashleyw 18y agoIts a title I expected Arrington to actually use, I was surprised his real title was kinda bland.
- azharcs 18y agoThis link-bait thing has to stop. Every now and then, somebody wants to get creative with the title.
- jmtame 18y agoFor some reason, it doesn't even seem to have the same appeal as YC. If given the choice, I would much rather work with YC. I'm a bigger fan of Paul Graham than I am of anyone in Google.
- andreyf 18y agoI'm a bigger fan of Paul Graham than I am of anyone in Google You must not be aware of who works at Google... Peter Norvig and Guido van Rossum come to mind. Granted, in the domain of advising startups, Paul is both a lot more knowledgeable and accessible.
- brlewis 18y agoYC is not a VC fund, and Google is not starting a seed-stage funding program.