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...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...
...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...
...caught the attention of rivals like Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, which hadn't yet moved online. Barnesandnoble.com would appear a year later--just before Amazon's initial public offering, which went off at a modest $18 a share. Never mind that the celebrated venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was its biggest institutional investor before the IPO. Wall Streeters were afraid of the threat posed by the giant Barnes & Noble, whose national network of bookstores looked unbeatable, prompting George Colony, president of Forrester Research, a prominent technology-analysis firm, to pronounce the company "Amazon.toast." Other naysayers referred...
...strategy is putting pressure on the competition. Traditional venture-capital outfits like Kleiner Perkins and powerful newcomers such as David Weatherell's CMGI have been assembling their own Internet conglomerates. Now they may have to do battle with Softbank. "These keiretsu are going to face off like football teams," says Howard Anderson, founder of consultants the Yankee Group. Yahoo competes with Lycos, which CMGI covets, and Kleiner Perkins' WebGrocer will be up against Softbank's Webvan, another online supermarket based in California...