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What 128 corporate venture cases teach us about why ideas fail — and what to do about it before the capital commits.

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The $3M Logistics Build We Didn't Do

I once spent six months defending a venture that an honest structural read in week two would have flagged as a misfit. The idea was right. The host was wrong. The methodology exists because that mistake was avoidable and expensive.

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