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Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up, which spun off from Carnegie Mellon University.

The US-based analytics software company was the first spin-out from Germany-based software company SAP and has the backing of its corporate venturing unit.

Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up.

The US-based data analysis company backed by UPS's corporate venturing unit secures an exit.

The revenue management company backed by Amazon and Hearst Corporation recruits Andrew Rutledge, whose past sales roles include posts at Google and Doubleclick.

This article, the second of two, contains ideas for successful corporate venturing drawn from my experience in operations in corporate companies, start-ups providing products and services to corpo-rates and corporate venture capital investing with an oil major. This article deals with obstacles and failure signals.

Capital prospects for accelerated venture growth.

This is the second in a bimonthly series of articles about the personal alternative investments markets available to the professional corporate venturer. This section in Global Corporate Venturing magazine looks beyond our readers' day jobs at how they manage their time and wealth using the same skills of insight, trend analysis and managing risk they bring to their professional careers.

These pages summarise last month's deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement. To report a deal or add your data, email Toby Lewis at tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com

A trend to watch for much of this year will be corporates coming in to lead rounds for exciting new technologies of a capital intensive nature. For contrarian corporates getting in, while others are pulling back, the opportunity is promising.