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NFL Players Union To Trade Marketing Rights For Startup Equity
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 3:28pm | 354Read More...The National Football League players union is starting a venture group, OneTeam Collective, to trade the rights to football players’ images for equity in sports-oriented startups. Capital The group is getting its investment capital from six other founding partners: Harvard Innovation Lab,...
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Peter Thiel's Support Of Trump Is Bad For Business
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 4:12pm | 403Read More...Donald Trump's support among Silicon Valley hotshots and deal makers includes Peter Thiel and possibly a few closeted supporters afraid to speak up. If Trump does have any other supporters, then they are likely to remain silent based on how Thiel is being treated. According to a Bloomberg report,...
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Mobile Monetization Levels to Surpass Desktop in 1-3 Years
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 1:57pm | 266Read More...As mobile usage increases, Google and Facebook are quickly losing out on their primary source of revenue. But if Mary Meeker's estimates are accurate, that could change very soon. Meeker, a former Wall Street analyst and a current partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, gave a detailed...
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Rich People Unite With Cheap Vacation Homes
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:42am | 363Read More...Spend a fortune today, save a fortune tomorrow. If you've ever wanted to rent a mansion without the hassle of handing over several grand a night, and if you don't mind spending $15,000 to get that privilege, Inspirato is for you. Described as an Airbnb for the rich and famous, Inspirato profits...
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$26M for Fashion E-Commerce Company Trendyol.com
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 8:19am | 553Read More...Trendyol.com is getting a financial boost today with investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Tiger Global. Based in Turkey, Trendyol is riding the nation's recent tech boom. With an estimated 35 million Internet users (45% of the population), Trendyol.com is in an interesting...
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WSJ- Twitter Worth $7 Billion
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 3:14pm | 164Read More...According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter is now worth $7 billion, having raised hundreds of millions in a few financing round, according to a person close to the situation. It is not known who is participating in this round of financing, although the company did raise $200 million seven...
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SuVolta Licenses Low-Power Chip Technology to Fujitsu
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 3:29pm | 251Read More...Silicon Valley startup SuVolta has announced that it has technology that will reduce the amount of power consumed by semiconductor chips by 50% or more without sacrificing performance. SuVolta's PowerShrink platform minimizes the electrical variation in each of the millions of transistors on a chip...
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Venture Capitalist Joe Lacob Outbids Larry Ellison for Warriors Stake (ORCL)
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 4:26pm | 149Read More...Dow Jones is reporting that the famed CEO of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), Larry Ellison, was outbid by Joe Lacob for the ownership stake in the Golden State Warriors, an NBA team. Joe Lacob is a partner at Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; KPCB specializes in life-sciences...
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Doubles Size Of Apple (AAPL) Applications Fund
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 4:16pm | 133Read More...Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced that it was expanding its "iFund", which supports companies that create programs for the Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone OS, to fund developers of programs for the iPad as well. Besides expanding the type of companies that the...
