John Doerr
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Famed VC John Doerr No Longer Attends Twitter Board Meetings
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Dec 14, 2011
Finally! Famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Google board member John Doerr doesn't get the old heave-ho very often. This was fitting, because the most famous thing Doerr is ever alleged to have said is that his investment philosophy is:… Full Story »
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Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board "For The Good Of The Company"
TechCrunch &bull Dec 14, 2011
In digging around trying to investigate rumors that KPCB VC John Doerr lost his "board observer"status at Twitter two weeks ago, I came across the information that almost all investors including Doerr were told to stop coming to board meetings… Full Story »
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Edmodo nabs $15M for bulking up 'Facebook' of education
Vator News &bull Dec 8, 2011Technology focused on the educational field is often hard to spread across the slow-to-change and under-funded districts and schools but one social learning tool - Edmodo - has gained more than 4.6 million users and now has an additional $15 million in Series B funding. The online social learning and… Full Story »
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DreamBox Learning Lands $11M
Northwest Innovation &bull Dec 7, 2011Bellevue-based DreamBox Learning, the developer of adaptive learning software for elementary school students, said today that it has raised $11M in a new funding round. The round came from Charter School Growth Fund, the fund run by Netflix CEO Reed… Full Story »
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Want To Be A VC? Start A Company.
A VC &bull Nov 2, 2011
Steve Blank has a great post up on his blog suggesting that VCs should require startup CEO experience in their partners' resumes. He quotes from me in that post but I'm not going to state which one came from me.… Full Story »
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Mark Pincus Used To Be Sean Parker's Boss
TechCrunch &bull Oct 18, 2011
Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She is also a blogger who attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to… Full Story »
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Grockit Gets A $7 Million Venture Infusion And Launches Video QA Site Grockit Answers
TechCrunch &bull Oct 17, 2011
Social learning startup Grockit raised its fourth round of funding, a $7 million series D, with current investor Atlas Ventures leading the round. Existing investors Benchmark and Integral Capital also participated, with new investors the NewSchools Venture Fund (an education… Full Story »
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Google's Management Isn't Using Google+
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Oct 4, 2011
Management caring deeply about their company's products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day . Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday . At the other extreme, I started at Apple under Gil Amelio, who used to have his emails printed out for him. On that basis alone it was hardly surprising he was… Full Story »
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The Best Informed Speculation We've Seen On Why Fred Wilson And Bijan Sabet Took Themselves Off Twitter's Board
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Sep 29, 2011
When Twitter's first VC investors Fred Wilson of USV and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital took themselves off Twitter's board earlier this month, we talked to a bunch of sources on both sides. Basically, they all told us that Fred and Bijan left the board because Twitter is a maturing company that needs the board seats for people… Full Story »
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VC John Doerr fired up on energy research
Yahoo Finance &bull Sep 28, 2011
KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn. (MarketWatch) - The United States spends more money on potato chips each year than it does on research and development for new forms of energy, and one venture capitalist is trying to change that. John Doerr - who rose to prominence in Silicon Valley as an… Full Story »
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Zynga To Debut New, 3D Version Of Facebook Game Mafia Wars
TechCrunch &bull Sep 20, 2011
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney's… Full Story »
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Obama Hits Up Silicon Valley One More Time With $35K+ Sheryl Sandberg Dinner
TechCrunch &bull Sep 19, 2011
Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She is also a blogger who attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to… Full Story »
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How to change the world: advice from Facebook, the Kinect team, Elon Musk & Salman Khan,
Venture Beat &bull Sep 19, 2011
Don't you wish you could ask the legendary innovators behind these great ideas what it really takes to change the world with technology? We got the opportunity to do just that, and here's what we learned. Today, we're bringing you advice from four of the most influential tech teams and entrepreneurs in the world on how they managed to affect real change and how you can apply those lessons to your own life and work. At a recent Churchill Club ceremony in Silicon Valley, Facebook, Microsoft's Kinect team, Tesla founder Elon Musk… Full Story »
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Tech news owes a lot to Arrington, conflicts and all
Venture Beat &bull Sep 16, 2011
But one thing has remained constant: the ruthless competition for discovering and reporting the best news stories. Among those competitors is TechCrunch, one of the most efficient and tenacious tech news publications in the valley. Michael Arrington stands - or, stood, rather - at the center of that team. His personality and potential conflicts of interest have generated a lot of discussion. I'm not going to comment in on either of those observations, because I've only personally experienced one of… Full Story »
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Disrupt SF 2011: The Full Agenda
TechCrunch &bull Sep 8, 2011
In addition to everything else going on at TechCrunch this week, we are also gearing up for Disrupt SF , which starts this weekend with the Hackathon followed by the main three-day event Sept 12-14. And it's going to be… Full Story »
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NO CONFLICT, NO INTEREST: AOL Helps Its Startup Journo Arrington Raise A VC Fund To Invest In...Startups (AOL)
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Sep 1, 2011
Dan Primack reports: Michael Arrington , founder and co-editor of TechCrunch , is raising a venture capital fund to invest in early-stage technology companies, Fortune has learned. His partner will be Patrick Gallagher of VantagePoint Venture Partners , while investors… Full Story »
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Silicon Challenge #17: Kleiner Perkins vs. Sequoia
Biz Journals &bull Aug 23, 2011
Part 2 pits a pair of powerful Menlo Park firms against each other that were both started in 1972: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersKleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersLatest from The Business JournalsSilicon Challenge #16: Vinod Khosla vs. Tim DraperLater-stage companies… Full Story »
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Fake John Doerr Tips Us About Cool Twitter Photo Search Trick
TechCrunch &bull Aug 5, 2011
It's not every day that John Doerr sends us an email into our tip box. In fact, he didn't send one today either, but someone using his name did. (Yeah, we checked with the real John Doerr, it wasn't him).… Full Story »
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Silicon Valley has jobs advice for Washington
CNN Money &bull Aug 2, 2011
FORTUNE -- With the debt ceiling standoff resolved (sort of), Silicon Valley's technorati gathered in Palo Alto, California Tuesday morning to dole out advice on Washington's next gargantuan problem, job creation. Tech heavyweights like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, venture capitalist John Doerr and Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix (NFLX) --… Full Story »
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Kleiner Perkins Backs Former Hulu CTO Eric Feng's Social Startup Erly
TechCrunch &bull Aug 2, 2011
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney's… Full Story »
