Investing A La Carte: Making Separate Bets on Discovery and Development to Boost Near-Term Returns
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
As executives and investors scramble to find business models that more closely link investment and return, a handful of technology firms have alit on variations of a capital-efficient strategy: let someone else do the development dirty work.
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