Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

I F you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. 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. Well not, wrong exactly.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow. But, in my experience, they're good medicine. Never start your fundraising process by meeting the top funds first.

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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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Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Fortunately for Szaky, he had already laid the groundwork of financing from suppliers, equity investors and others to allow them to double sales in two months. Use multiple sources of finance. One retailer I know discovered that the $100 or so penalty to defer California sales tax by a month was actually a cheap source of financing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.

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