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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. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT.

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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. He’s the Valley’s first-ever Design Partner. That’s a serious step into the mover-shaker circle for the design profession.

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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. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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. The notes below are practical working tips on how to go about navigating venture capitalist conversations. Politely decline.

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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

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. And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? Now that might sound a little extreme.

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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. HBR Staff/Steve Jennings / Stringer/Getty Images.

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