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In two previous articles I have spoken of (the in)cultura to undertake of two basic groups for the creation of innovating companies: those that must have the idea and the impulse to put it in march and those that would have to contribute at the first moments to finance these initiatives. Another one of the fundamental pillars of a system that creates companies is the one that we could say, generalizing, "capital deprived risk", that it would have to be constituted by the great financial groups and great local companies.

Of the mentality of these great groups a conversation can speak that I recently had with a friend mine who has responsibilities in the areas of investment in innovation of a great bank. When I complained which they did not invest in capital risk, she explained to me that that did not interest to them, since if detected some innovating initiative preferred to buy it directly. The idea came to be: why we have to invest and to help to that the one is covered that has had the idea? We preferred to cover. This mentality it I by personal experience at the time of negotiating enterprise collaborations with local groups can also certify. Let us compare this mentaliadad with the experience that I have been knowing first hand for one week in New York. There 10 years ago a investment fund of capital risk deprived with the intention of fortifying was created and diversifying the economy of the city. 67empresas participated that invested million dollars each one. Thoroughly lost, without waiting for financial return. Almost just like here, right?.


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Francesc Llobet is an Internet entrepreneur and a strategy business consultant in the fields of innovation, internet marketing and ebusiness.
Based in Barcelona, Catalonia (European Union), he is the founder of Sappiens.com, The Knowledge Community and Founder and CEO of Adverstore.com, Advertising for everyOne!. He maintains InnovationThink, eMarketingThink OnlineAdvertisingThink and A Startup Story, blogs where he writes on Innovation, Internet Marketing, Advertising and Startups. To know more..

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