The dawn of the marketing venture capitalist

Most consumer goods companies still depend for growth on the `invention' of new products in-house, supported by large R&D expenditure.

The Dawn of the Marketing Venture Capitalist

Martin DebooIngram, where he focuses on organic growth issues

In may 2005, Coldplay's single 'Speed of Sound' went straight into the top ten of the US charts – the first time a British group had achieved this feat since the Beatles with 'Hey Jude' 37 years before. For Coldplay's record company, EMI, it marked a return to the glory days when the Beatles were guarantors of its US sales. For the British music industry, it brought to an end a long era of transatlantic famine.

For the industry worldwide, the event represented...

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