Word: kleiner
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...most fundamental level of demand creation," says Vinod Khosla, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins. "Optical-networking companies are like Levi's. They're supplying jeans and tools to miners during the Gold Rush." The amount of data traversing the Web is doubling every three months, and as these merged-media entities offer fatter and better Web services, bandwidth demand should accelerate again...
...creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business. This is the sort of thinking that is "breathing fresh air into the whole world of philanthropy," says Lester Saloman, director of Johns Hopkins Center of Civil Society Studies. The venture-capital community--especially blue-chip firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has funded Google and Amazon.com among others--believes it has honed its skills at picking winners to a point where it can apply them to philanthropic work...
...Kleiner Perkins founding partner John Doerr leads the $20 million New Schools Ventures Fund, a foundation dedicated to educational causes, which gets its money from venture capitalists and CEOs. Doerr says he looks for the same attributes in his philanthropic projects as he does in his tech investments. "I like to see a passionate founding entrepreneur, strategic focus on a large underserved need, scalability and the ability to become a freestanding venture," he explains during a break between pitches...
That means sitting down at 10 a.m. to pitch meetings like this one with his VC partners and competitors--Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins, Steven Merrill of Benchmark Capital and CEOs Matt Glickman of BabyCenter.com and Dave Whorton of Springthings.com--to listen to the latest ideas from the world of philanthropy and interrogate the presenters, picking apart their Powerpoint presentations as aggressively as they would a B2B start...
...Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have one of the highest per capita incomes of any immigrant group in the U.S. "It is a credit to this country that someone from...