Google Ventures, which is Google’s VC arm, announced last week that they hired an “Entrepreneur-in-Residence”. Craig Walker, who co-founded GrandCentral (which was bought by Google and turned into Google Voice), gets to develop his next project knowing that the Google will fund him. He also gets access to “user interface design, usability testing, back-end engineering, marketing and many other things”. Google gets access to a successful start-up entrepreneur. Will it solve the exploration-v.-exploitation dilemma?
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Is Google Ventures chiefly about finding new ideas, or will it help Google develop and realize those ideas as well? Google Ventures is a good project for the class! I believe the article cites the head of the VC arm of Google; why not just contact him and see if he’s interested in a project? Morten