Tag Archives: Venture capitalists

Vinod Khosla Avoids Questions In Private Beach Trial

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Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla leaned heavily on one favorite line in court on Monday: “I do not specifically recall.” Attorneys and environmentalists have spent years outraged that...

Tim Cook, Dr. Dre And The Battle For Apple’s Cash

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The news that Apple is nearing a $3.2 billion acquisition to buy Beats Electronics is one of the biggest business stories in the nation. The potential deal has received so much attention because it...

Inside Sequoia Capital

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When Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn’t have a clue. He flunked a math quiz in school because the terms “true” and “false” bewildered him. He...
    






Japanese Giant Mitsui Leads $60M Investment In A Startup That Turns Pollution Into Pure Money

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As places like China and India continue to grow, an ever-increasing supply of billowing smoke stacks mark these countries’ landscapes. 7 million people died in 2012 from air pollution....

Accel Partners Raises New Funds Totaling Over $1 Billion As Facebook Investor Jim Breyer Reduces Role

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Accel Partners, a leading venture capital and growth equity firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.475 billion as one of its most prominent figures looks to decrease his role. Famed Accel leader...

Why Kleiner’s John Doerr Is Joining The Board Of Teacher Messaging App Remind101

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The cliche “there’s an app for that” has finally reached teachers whose classrooms are slowly getting overhauled but still need to deal with basic issues like a forgotten permission slip or homework...

60 Minutes’ Shortsighted Report On Cleantech And Vinod Khosla Is An Attack On American Innovation

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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs About two weeks ago, 60 Minutes ran a story evaluating Vinod Khosla’s investments in the Cleantech industry and interviewed...

Tom Perkins And Five Other Supervillain Moments From Silicon Valley

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Action movie villains suffer from a curious compulsion to explain their evil schemes, usually while the hero is surreptitiously working his hands free of the ropes binding them to a doomsday machine...