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JUNE 15, 2020

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. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. We’ve heard it all before.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, venture firms are constantly scouring for opportunities to get their invested company acquired, which is an increasingly attractive exit route for digital entrepreneurs, given the IPO’s long-drawn process and mandated holding-period requirements for initial investors.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need GE: Crossing the "Valley of death". The technologies needed to solve sustainability challenges, at the scale we need them, are not going to come cheap.

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Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dangerous period for entrepreneurs is not when they start up from scratch but when they scale up for growth. Many entrepreneurs who are propelled into a sudden growth trajectory think mostly about raising risk-sharing equity investment from venture capitals or private “angels.”

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. By their collective choices, they are risking our very lives. But bear with me.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Entrepreneur Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Entrepreneurs who don’t want to buy a 3D printer can always try out one of the new DIY fabrication studios popping up. HISTORIC GROWTH IN WEARABLES.

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