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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Professor Kleiner discusses the rebirth of Athens under the Romans especially during the reigns of the two philhellenic emperors, Augustus and Hadrian. While some have dismissed the architecture of Roman Athens as derivative of its Classical and Hellenistic Greek past, Professor Kleiner demonstr...
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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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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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Debra Dunn, former vice president of strategy and corporate operations at Hewlett Packard, and Randy Komisar, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, believe that leadership skills and the ability to handle change comfortably are the key characteristics that have been useful in their resp...
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Professor Kleiner discusses the development of Third Style Roman wall painting in late first century B.C. villas belonging to the imperial family and other elite patrons. Third Style painting, as Professor Kleiner demonstrates, is characterized by departure from the perspectival vistas and panor...
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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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Komisar talks about his transition from teaching at Stanford to getting into the structured environment of venture capital firms. He discusses the things he found appealing about his job as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
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The question is in the emerging markets. So in China, how would we go about investing? Would we collaborate with VCs there? How would we basically advance the technology? Let me give you an example of what we’ve done in China and what we've done in India, and they're very different, and we took...
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Professor Kleiner presents the architecture of Constantine the Great, the last pagan and first Christian emperor of Rome, who founded Constantinople as the "New Rome" in A.D. 324. She notes that Constantine began with commissions that were tied to the pagan past (the Baths of Constantine in Rome...
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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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Well, the nature of ... and again, venture capital is practiced in many different ways. So I can only speak about it from the perspective of what we do at Kleiner Perkins. The nature of what we do is very hands-on in our companies. As I said, I meet with my companies every week, and help them to...
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