Audience 1: In the early days of the Internet bubble, it was said, and this is, I know, an oversimplification, but it was said that all you needed was a few PowerPoint slides and a half-baked business plan, and you would get lots of money. Then came the crash, and now to move forward to 2007, th...
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Let’s just jump back up to 30,000 feet for a minute and talk about what's happening in the venture capital field. I'll talk about some areas of interest, and then we'll stop and let me address some of the questions because you had some great questions that will be interesting to talk about. ...
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John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks about what distinguishes successful companies from all others. The two main factors are passionate founders and devotion to technical excellence.
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Byers gives an insight into the decision-making process at Kleiner Perkins on how it makes investment decisions. He advises entrepreneurs on ways to champion starting a selling process in the firm.
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Randy Komisar, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, explains his title of Virtual CEO, which does not have a specific meaning. It is extremely adaptive and evolves to his changing roles. The purpose of the title was to provide a sort of identity on a business card that he co...
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When our firm co-founded Tandem Computers with Jimmy Travegh, Jack Lustenau and this was in 1976. The diligence period was six months to study non-stop computing architecture and to go survey what other companies might be working in it and look at companies that aren’t here today, that in genera...
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My first "failure" - commercial failure, significant commercial failure, was a company called GO Corporation, which was the precursor to pen computing in the United States. It was ahead of the Palm Pilot and what we then saw, Palm and Handspring were also good friends of mine, Don and Jeff. ...
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You know, maybe you could give the example of TiVo, how that--which was not a Kleiner project, but it came to you in one form. Because--I think we talked about this a lot--an idea starts one place, but where you end up can often be very different. Randy Komisar: Well, TiVo, when TiVo c...
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I always tell people that what distinguishes Silicon Valley is not its successes but the way in which it deals with failure. We live in an industry, innovation industry, and we live in a place, Silicon Valley, that operates much like the home run averages for batters in the Major League...
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A View On Industry Bubbles and Investment Partners
