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. Of course, you will take the higher valuation, because you’ll give up less of the company, right? Of course, there are other reasons not to always take the highest valuation.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2015
” Of course, if you’re not breathing, it doesn’t much matter what your purpose in life is. Experienced investors know this — John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins often talks about looking for missionary founders rather than mercenary founders. Lose sight of that, and you lose the company.
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. And, of course, some of you are already there, trying to get the rest to join you.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 18, 2014
Of course, both business school and real life experience teach us that it helps to plan out your moves in advance — and it does. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Be opportunistic about raising money.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2018
Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. Over the course of a few decades, I’ve given this presentation to 100 or so organizations, some of which adopted it, some of which did not.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
GE and its venture capital (VC) partners such as Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital have invested $134 million (of $200 million allocated) in a small selection of these businesses. Of course government can provide capital and buying power. In 12 months, GE received an astonishing 5,000 business plans.
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