Issue #10: Resource Asymmetry.

Why corporate ventures get the wrong resources at the wrong time? Part 4 of 6 in Corporate Venturing Under Constraint.

May 5 • The Venture Operator

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April 2026

Issue #9: The Portfolio Illusion

Why Most Innovation Portfolios Are Not Real Portfolios

Apr 21 • The Venture Operator

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Observation: Is Australia's Innovation Ecosystem Quietly Rewiring Itself?

New capital sources, strategic infrastructure, and university venture programs suggest a maturing ecosystem. The question is whether the pieces connect.

Apr 14 • The Venture Operator

Issue#8: Zombie Pilots

The idea, the venture, the initiative that cannot die. Not because it is succeeding, but because stopping it is structurally harder than continuing.

Apr 9 • The Venture Operator

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March 2026

Issue #7: When Nothing Changes.

Why well-resourced innovation functions still fail to produce ventures?

Mar 16 • The Venture Operator

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Issue #6: Structural Discipline at Inflection

When exposure rises faster than certainty, structure must tighten.

Mar 3 • The Venture Operator

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February 2026

Issue #5: From Signal to Strategy: When optionality becomes the risk

Insight is rarely the constraint. Commitment is.

Feb 12 • The Venture Operator

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Observation: Australia’s Zombie Pilot Problem

Zombie pilots are not an innovation failure. They are a decision failure.

Feb 8 • The Venture Operator

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January 2026

Issue #4: When to Walk Away

Continuation bias and the cost of non-compounding drift.

Jan 29 • The Venture Operator

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Issue #3: The signals that actually matter.

What real demand looks like long before success is evident.

Jan 14 • The Venture Operator

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Observation: Resilience helps new ventures to say coherent.

Reflections from the final event I attended in 2025, sparked by a founder’s candid journey talk highlighting resilience, disruption, and making unwanted…

Jan 8 • The Venture Operator

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Observation: What CVC activity signals and what it does not.

Observations on what capital deployment signals and what it does not for founders engaging corporate venture capital.

Jan 4 • The Venture Operator

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