Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr explains how to run your company like Bill Gates or BonoTo any entrepreneur, the idea of setting goals may sound boringly basic. But according to John Doerr, the chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it’s rare that anyone takes idea just one step further: Openly communicating those goals to their teams. “If we go to the average company in America, just the very idea that the goals are all transparent and public, that’s revolutionary,” Doerr said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. [ Recode ] A startup founder who sold his company for $3.7 billion says entrepreneurs should stop paying to attention to investors if they want to build a billion-dollar business — here's who they should strive to please instead
In One VC Sector, Women Are Gaining GroundWhile women still represent only about 15% of decision makers at Silicon Valley’s major venture capital firms, another subset of the industry, corporate venture capital, has a higher proportion of women calling the shots. At least four of the 20 biggest corporate venture capital funds, including those operated by Comcast, Time Warner, GE and Novartis, are run by women, while the head of Microsoft’s relatively young venture arm reports to the company’s female head of business development. Citigroup’s venture capital arm, one of the most active among banks’, also is led by a woman. The Information has profiled some of the sector’s prominent female leaders below. [ The Information ] This woman coaches tech entrepreneurs — here's the lesson for getting funded she thinks everyone should learn
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