Word: khosla
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...magnet for dice-rolling dreamers who want to start anew, make money and change the world, with or without pants. "I see my own pattern repeated again and again - people who want to invent the future and aren't afraid to fail," says billionaire Silicon Valley financier Vinod Khosla, an Indian immigrant who helped found Sun Microsystems and recently unveiled a $1.1 billion venture fund for investments in clean technology...
...guts of the Internet, is pivoting to make the guts of the digitized grid. San Diego's cluster of more than 500 biotech companies is now the world capital of algae-to-fuel experiments, including a new $600 million joint venture between ExxonMobil and Venter's Synthetic Genomics. Khosla's investments include Calera, a carbon-capturing-cement start-up founded by a Stanford expert in medical cement; Amyris, which has Berkeley malaria researchers working to turn sugar into diesel; and Soladigm, which exploits semiconductor-industry expertise to make energy-efficient windows...
...much impact this would have on patient care remains to be seen," says Dr. Sundeep Khosla, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, who wrote an editorial accompanying the two studies in the Journal. But because denosumab did not result in any serious side effects, it has the potential of becoming a safer alternative, should its current profile hold up in additional studies...
...Khosla notes that neither the bisphosphonates nor denosumab actually causes the creation of new bone, which would be the ultimate goal of any osteoporosis treatment. The increases in bone-mineral density seen in the Journal studies is primarily due to minerals filling in the gaps left in the wake of bone destruction, he says. "In my mind, the dramatic changes will be seen with the anabolic agents," he says. "They hold the potential for completely curing the disease, reversing bone loss so you effectively are not osteoporotic any more...
...governments truly decided to tackle climate change - and with Obama in charge, they're poised to do so - the potential is unlimited. "By 2015 we'll be talking about energy in a very different way," says Vinod Khosla, the veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist. "Smart entrepreneurs are poised to thrive...