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Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996

At the recent SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards, Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's top VCs, gave an inspiring and very humble speech. How To Succeed In Silicon Valley By Bumbling And Failing... Afterwards, I...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Business Model, Vinod Khosla, Foremski, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Bumbling around and failing every which way . . . lessons for success

Vinod Khosla is one of Silicon Valley's most successful VCs. I was at the recent SDForum Visionary Awards where Mr Khosla was one of four winners of the 2009 awards. His acceptance speech was short and very good. Excellent advice for entrepreneurs. Also, he talks about failure, which...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Vision, Vinod Khosla, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'

Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'The weapon of choice on the war on coalKhosla accurately points out coal is base load power, and the replacement of coal is not simple. Coal represents about 60% of U.S. power generation, all of it base load.Nuclear is the...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, Vinod Khosla, coal, clean technology

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Niklas Zennström at VON '07: Innovation needs an open 'Net

Im here at the Video on the Net conference in San Jose, where Niklas Zennström, on one of his first journeys to U.S. soil since the Kazaa settlement, joined Jeff Pulver and Vinod Khosla this morning in a session dubbed "The Internet Industry in Perspective." Zennström primarily discussed the...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, telephone, video, Vinod Khosla, Skype Technologies S.A., Jeff Pulver, advertisement, wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-20

D: Vinod Khosla thinks outside the barrel

D: Vinod Khosla thinks outside the barrelCalling all ZDnet bloggers............Please check your grammar before posting. Such errors suggest the possibility of insufficient research time on your pieces.

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Discussion threads 2006-06-02

Additional Resources

There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

What powers the richest Americans?

Right now there are no greentech billionaires on Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans. That could change. But there are over two dozen billionaires who depend directly on the fossil fuel industry for their wealth. That is just one reason it'll be very hard to reform...

Tags: Billionaire, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-01

The outlook for cleantech: bright green

That's green as in money. There are even predictions now of several big-time cleantech IPOs in the coming year. And some VCs report it's now easy to raise money for their green-colored venture funds. Despite the overall American economic malaise. Recently Vinod Khosla recently announced he'd...

Tags: Clean Technology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...

Tags: Biofuel, Fraud, Biofuel Fraud, Scams, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Visionary 2009: Jim Clark on the importance of Stanford university to Silicon Valley

Jim Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape was one of four winners of the SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards. He spoke about his earlier life and how he was trying to get out of Texas, then trying to get out of the navy. He also spoke about the importance...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Stanford University, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Visionary 2009: Judy Estrin says innovation is in trouble

Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, she continues to sound warnings that innovation is in danger because of fundamental structural problems. She spoke at the SDForum Visionary Awards 2009. She was one of four recepients of the annual awards. p>"What I've been struck by, and concerned...

Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Government, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson  Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures  Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel...

Tags: Founder, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

U.S. battery company tries to power up

We all know Micihigan leads the country in unemployment and in dinosaur car companies. Amidst the nostalgia for days go by, some entrepreneurs are pushing for a re-birth. An Ann Arbor start-up is wanting to a big in the world of batteries. Sakti3 has backing...

Tags: Battery, Department Of Energy, Sakti3, Sakti, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Window company sees future clearly, shhhhhh

Soladigm not only has a clear vision of its future, but it's keeping it a secret. It believes in transparency, of a sort. It's very much in the window business. Literal, physical windows. The 2-year old California start-up just got another round of funding from Vinod...

Tags: Window, Soladigm, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Bi-partisan conflab on carbon controls in U.S.

A former British Prime Minister, a bunch of corporate CEOs and a quartet of Senators from the two parties...alll talking global warming. Tony Blair, GE, Vinod Khosla, let's do something was the concensus. John Chambers was there on behalf of Cisco. Certainly Cisco and GE...

Tags: General Electric Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Greenest billionaires? Guess who's on top...

#1 eco-billionaire according to the "Sunday Times" in Britain: Warren Buffett, the money man of Omaha. He is listed as major player in wind energy. The "Times" just published its annual "Green Rich List." It's necessary to note that this newspaper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but of course...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

Khosla: Don't Save the DinosaursFacts, schmacts who needs themHere's an interesting articlehttp://freep.com/article/20081205/COL14/812050400Love them pollsI note there isn't an "I disagree" response that doesn't disparage the proponent. Maybe something like: "I disagree because helping the automakers is better than letting them fail", or maybe, "I disagree, but the automakers shouldn't...

Tags: Manufacturing, automobile company, Khosla, Dinosaur, New Car

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

Well-known greentech VC Vinod Khosla has an opinion piece in a national news mag today...and it calls for letting Detroit's auto dinosaurs wander around among the financial ferns until they die, or evolve into more agile creatures. Khosla's argument is cogent and backed by much of recent...

Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., VC Vinod Khosla, Chevy Volt, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-05

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

Video: The week in Green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...

Tags: Biofuel, Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-19