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...using its amped stock to merge with the Yahoo-wannabe Excite. The match was hailed as a commonsense combination of access and content -- "The Media Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...
...prestigious venture-capital firm, set up shop in dingy offices, hire a lot of people, generate buzz, go public. The 15-month-old Internet start-up Della & James hasn't had its IPO yet, but so far it has nailed down the idea (an online bridal registry), the VC (Kleiner Perkins), the hiring (15 to 70 employees in six months) and the buzz (everybody in the Valley has heard of Della & James). But there are some twists: their office is more Pottery Barn than grunge. The ambitious geeks didn't bother to graduate Stanford. And they're not geeks; they...
Lefcourt and Herrin are poster girls for the Valley's new emphasis on business creativity. "I've never been conscious of being a woman in doing this," says Herrin. But there are still moments when it confronts them. When she walked into a meeting with Kleiner Perkins, Lefcourt "looked around and thought, 'This room is huge and filled with men.' It occurred to me then that I must be a woman." And yet their pitch was convincing precisely because they could explain the nuances of wedding registries to highly credulous men. "We had an instinctive understanding of something they didn...
...Homegrocer.com was founded only last year, and is funded with money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the same venture capital firm that helped launch big Internet brands such as Amazon, Excite and At Home. Last month former Netscape chief executive James Barksdale invested some $5 million in the privately held online grocery company. MORE...
...rewards of being the biggest thesis are many: Kleiner's opus will soon be published and he's on the rise in L.A.--on the way to becoming a big-shot...