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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Finance Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Kleiner 400

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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Kleiner Telecommunications Magazine Strategy 89

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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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

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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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 12