Sentence examples for internal venture from inspiring English sources

Barclays and Disney run Social Intrapreneur Challenges – internal venture teams – across the world.

Rick Rommel, a senior vice president of the new-business group at Best Buy, says his unit has "an internal venture capital mind-set".

It has also been financing a secretive internal venture dubbed Insiemi, which is said to be working on a fully-fledged SDN offering.

The context for an internal venture inside an existing company is dramatically different from the context confronting an external startup out in the wild.

Accordingly, from the 1960s through the 1980s, such companies as Boeing, Exxon, GE, Gillette, Levi Strauss, and Monsanto set up separate internal venture divisions.

Formerly a business unit of Lucent, where it served as an internal venture capital fund to spin out Bell Labs, NVP became independent in 2001.

Xerox will only fund internal ventures that fit into its strategy.

Nor is it the product of a skunkworks or other techniques for internal venturing.

The Exxon Corporation, which undertook one of the most ambitious programs in the 1970's and at one point had 19 internal ventures, has largely given up its efforts.

Milan Samani is a partner at innovation consulting firm TIL Ventures and founder of The Intrapreneur Lab, an intrapreneurial accelerator through which large companies drive innovative internal ventures and develop their talent.

What can new ventures, either de novo startups or internal ventures in large companies, learn from successful ventures such as Airbnb, which has shaken up the lodging industry, and Uber, which has challenged the way millions of people think about local transportation?