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NFL Players Union To Trade Marketing Rights For Startup Equity
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 3:28pm | 354The 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 | 403Donald 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 | 266As 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 | 363Spend 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 | 553Trendyol.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 | 164According 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 | 251Silicon 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 | 149Dow 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 | 133Venture 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...