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- John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation
- Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that President-elect Barack Obama needs to do, he says, is "kick-start a huge amount of innovation and research in energy." He adds, "It's the challenge for the...
- Tags: Innovation, Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr, Web 2.0, Leadership, Strategy, Internet, Management, Green Tech, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins
- Videos 2008-11-06
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- Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?
- We all know the sorry saga of two-thirds of the former Detroit Big Three. GM in bankruptcy, shedding brands and trying to become competitive once again. Chrylser is now essentially a distribution arm for Fiat, a second tier car company that had no American market share a year...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Hara offers environmental monitoring application in online format
- Can't find the money to invest in an on-premise enterprise application for managing your company's carbon portfolio? Hara, a start-up funded by veneral venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has introduced its first product, Hara Environmental and Energy Management. The application is focused on the...
- Tags: Monitoring, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Beating patent trolls at their own game
- Saul Hansell's piece in the Times is called Trolling for Patents to Fight Patent Trolls. Kinda like a war for peace. At a recent patent auction in San Francisco, which in general didn't go that well for the auctioneers, one company that was snapping patents up was...
- Tags: Game, Patent, Acacia Research, Patent Troll, Saul Hansell, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Churchill Club podcast: VC trends and strategies for 2009
- In this edition of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk changing company valuations, and threats such as corporate bankruptcies and limited partners reneging on their investment commitments. Here's the outlook for the year ahead. Panelists include: Jay Hoag, Co-founder, Technology Crossover...
- Tags: Strategy, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Tags: Innovation, Biofuel, Oil, Video, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Microsoft in talks to acquire Israeli VR startup
- Microsoft is reportedly negotiating to acquire Israeli startup 3DV Systems for about $35 million, according to Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. 3DV Systems is known for developing "virtual reality" imaging technology for digital cameras that it sells, called ZCams (formerly called Z-Sense), and...
- Tags: Imaging, Microsoft Corp., 3DV Systems, ZCam, Games, Document Management, Venture Capital, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Financing Startups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Bill Joy's green investing ideas [video]
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand challenge areas"--areas where the company, along with Al Gore and his staff, can make the biggest impact on...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation
- Videos 2009-02-12
- Bill Joy's green investing ideas
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand challenge areas"--areas where the company, along with Al Gore and his staff, can make the biggest impact on...
- Tags: Bill Joy, green, environment, Churchill Club, Al Gore, energy, venture capital
- Videos 2009-02-12
- More precious than platinum
- A few days with no water and we humans get our priorities straight. We're about to witness what happens when one of the largest farm economies in the world runs out of water. California looks to be headed to its worst drought since agri-business became big business in...
- Tags: California, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Recession lowers all boats
- In the solar industry the recession is pushing one player from operator to vendor. Ausra, based in Silicon Valley, is giving up its plans to build huge solar generating plants. Instead the firm will focus on selling components and solar facilities to existing utilities. Ausra is abandoning for...
- Tags: Recession, Ausra, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?
- A couple American ethanol plants are being shutdown, at least for now. One is in Indiana, the other in Ohio. AltraBiofuels gives its official reason for the closures: "market conditions." Read that as much lower gasoline prices. If gasoline prices continue to stay at this level or...
- Tags: Green Technology, Deflation, Alternative Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web
- A MySQL file containing contact information, founder bios, business plans, demos and financial information for 588 applicants to Kleiner Perkins’s iFund â€" a $100 million fund to invest in startups building applications for the iPhone â€" was accidentally posted to the Web and indexed by Google. Kleiner...
- Tags: Developer, Web, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fruux, BIOS, Open Source, Databases, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- In greentech as in the real world: you get big, you get enemies
- The folks at Ausra are getting a higher and higher profile in the realm of solar energy. And with that comes enemies. Your CEO poses at a big opening with California's high profile governor, and next thing you know: opposition. The Ausra company headquarters...
- Tags: California, Plant, Ausra, Ausra Company Headquarter, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- RPX: Can it defend against patent trolls?
- A startup on Tuesday will launch in an attempt to fix the current patent mess and defend against so-called patent trolls. The startup--RPX Corp.--is a so-called defensive patent aggregator. RPX--short for Rational Patent--aims to reduce the costs associated with non-practicing entities NPEs. These NPEs--known as patent trolls...
- Tags: Patent, Patent Troll, RPX Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Who will be the nation's CTO?
- John Doerr left and John Heilemann at Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 conference, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr recommended Sun cofounder Bill Joy or tech gadfly Danny Hillis for the position of the nation's chief technology officer, News.com's Rafe Needlman reports. On...
- Tags: Job, Chief Technology Officer, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
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