Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company. I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. So how do billion dollar companies get built? We’ve heard it all before. I was wrong.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, learn [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

The interview was conducted by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau. Here is another outstanding interview of Didier Lombard from a series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Comany.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2021

Namely – Best HR software small-to-mid-sized companies. The San Francisco-headquartered company is backed by bigwig investors such as Google Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, General Catalyst, Google Ventures, Salesforce, and the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Instagram, WordPress, Box, Eventbrite, Evernote, and Stripe, among others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The SEC Chairman recently announced a policy initiative to enable the ordinary investors to invest in private companies. Currently, only wealthy accredited investors are allowed to invest in private companies. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” In my scenario planning work with companies, I find this element essential. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

But when you suddenly accelerate and grow, whatever your company’s age, things get really hot really fast, largely because your need for cash explodes overnight. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Pay on time.

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