How VMware Funds Innovation like a VC

At the cloud and virtualization giant, more than 60 ideas have been presented over the last year-and-a-half, in areas like R&D, customer service, and field sales.

By Scott Kirsner · May 13, 2013 · 1 min read

Venture capital funding helps spawn Silicon Valley tech companies like VMware, a publicly-traded software company focused on virtualization and cloud-based services. So what could venture capital do internally — once a company is 15 years old and VMware’s size (roughly 13,500…