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This 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 thi
by sdpurtill 18y ago
This 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