Why Venture Strategies?
The most successful companies are those that have developed aggressive venture strategies and have made ventures critical components of their strategic and operating success. For today’s corporations, traditional internal expansions, efficiency improvements and “synergistic” acquisitions are no longer sufficient sources of growth in most industry segments that had grown crowded and hypercompetitive. The new challenge is to search for emerging “white space” opportunities, “new-business creations that would meet the unmet, unserved needs of customers in emerging markets.”1 In ventures, large and midsized companies can discover a source of growth they are striving to achieve. New business creation has become central to achieving strategic and financial objectives of market champions. “Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist if big companies couldn’t identify technology and market opportunities and move with speed to capitalize on them”, says Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital Partners.
