Leading Blog

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

APRIL 11, 2016

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. Thus, digital entrepreneurs choose their financiers not only for their contributed capital but also for their partnership value and exit options they create for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. I’m sure I speak for design-oriented entrepreneurs everywhere when I say that it’s about time. He’s the Valley’s first-ever Design Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Most great businesspeople I've met would correctly advise an entrepreneur to avoid raising money if possible. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. Some venture guys will give you grief.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

But it is not another Silicon Valley venture capital firm seeking extraordinary returns from small number of bets with short time horizons. Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. A talent magnet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. Kauffman Foundation research shows that more than half of Silicon Valley start-ups are founded by foreign-born entrepreneurs.

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