Word: kleiner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the risks and the possibilities of failure, start-ups benefit the entire country, argues John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins Caulfied & Byers, a Menlo Park venture-capital firm that has helped finance dozens of new companies, including Netscape and Pixar. Doerr says Kleiner Perkins clients have created 150,000 new jobs in the past five years alone and have reinforced America's technological edge. "Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart...
...stock issues don't just happen. They are produced by a complex web of relations among a company's founders, backers and investment bankers and involve extended periods of hard work, discipline and innovation. Venture-capital firms like Kleiner Perkins first lay out money to get promising companies up and running, and then take seats on their boards. The nurturing often lasts for years. Silicon Video Corp., a San Jose, California, maker of flat-panel video displays that plans to go public in the second half of this year, has got some $15 million from venture capitalists since 1991. "They...
...successful IPO can hit the jackpot not only for the start-up but for venture capitalists as well. Doerr and his Kleiner Perkins partners invested nearly $5 million in Netscape before it went public in return for stock now worth some $590 million. Some venture capitalists have even launched their own high-tech companies to ensure getting in on the gold rush. Kleiner Perkins joined forces with cable-TV giant TeleCommunications last year to create a firm called @Home; it plans to bring the Internet and its World Wide Web--along with programs like local news shows--to home computers...
...Stephanine Gregerson, Thomas E. Guderson, Paul Hahn, Elizabeth A. Haynes, James M. Higbie, Ivan C. K. Ho, John E. Howbert, Richard J. Hughes, Sarah E. Jackson, Ramesh O. Johari, Andrea E. Johnson, Kevin B. Jones, William M. Kaminsky, Nina W. Kang, Fotini V. Kotopodes, Scott Y. Kim, Jeremy D. Kleiner, Jason E. Kolman, Ivy A. Ku, Jeffrey C. Kuo, David A. Lambert, Brian A. Lanman, Daniel T. Larson, Jeffrey C. Lau, Sandra Y. Lee, Vivian M. Lee, Tamara E. Levin, Joseph I. Levinson, Wilson J. Liao, Jenny S. Lian, Eric C. Liu, Franklin LIu, Kenneth Y. Liu, Amanda J. Lockshin...
...thing. That's the reason I started. A bunch of my friends smoke so I picked it up from them. Honestly, I think that this is the case for most people at Harvard. Smoking is something which I generally see at parties and at the Grille," said Anatole K. Kleiner '98, who says he is an occasional smoker...