It's hard enough being a member of a demonized class without watching your colleagues go rogue. As a venture capitalist, I have never been comfortable being lumped in with leveraged buyout shops, hedge fund moguls, and, God forbid, investment bankers. Al

Last year the Essence Group raised $70 million in funding from investors that included Passport Capital, Camden Partners and Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners. Essence is an umbrella organization, founded by venture capitalist John Doerr, that incl

Remember Healtheon, the dot-com company that was going to bring the hidebound health care industry into the Internet era? Well, it didn’t work out that way, and the best-known remnant is WebMD, a Web site for health information and news. “We had the righ

This article was taken from the March 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. John Doerr was crying. The billionai

Wind Power: Plummeting natural gas prices now make this option comparatively expensive. Photo: Dan Forbes John Doerr was crying. The billionaire venture capitalist had come to the end of his now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewa

Dave Whorton has a near-perfect pedigree for Silicon Valley. And his Tugboat Ventures taps that pedigree to help about four start-ups a year to make the transition from an idea into a substantial business. After earning his degree at Berkeley and working

CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman decided to find out how his Klout score could be higher than that of John Doerr, arguably the most influential venture capitalist in history. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) John Doerr has been called the "world's wealthiest

SAN FRANCISCO — President Barack Obama is assembling a cast of tech industry bigwigs to rake in campaign cash from Silicon Valley. And any technical know-how they can provide would certainly be welcome, too. His campaign has created a fundraising focus g

In yesterday's piece about wanting an exit from Google, I mentioned that I might use DuckDuckGo, but had reservations because it's "another Fred Wilson company." Fred, who is a very cheerful dude (no sarcasm) responded with evangelism, which is what I li

Wind Power: Plummeting natural gas prices now make this option comparatively expensive. Photo: Dan Forbes John Doerr was crying. The billionaire venture capitalist had come to the end of his now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewa

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on government reform, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) President Barack Obama’s deputies are fitting Gov. Mitt Romney up as a heartless and gree

So when a major company changes the boardroom roster, investors should sit up and take notice. Today, we're looking at online behemoth Google (NAS: GOOG). The search giant just expanded its board from nine members to 10 by adding VMware (NYS: VMW) co-fo

Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was an early backer of Google. Greene has been a board member at tax software developer Intuit Inc. since 2006, where she serves on the audit and risk committee, Google said in the filing. Previously, Greene

There is an undeniable appeal to the notion of bootsrapping your company to success without venture capital. While bootstrapping has many advantages aside from control and ownership—such as being master of your domain and giving you the freedom to build

The German chemical giant BASF has invested $30 million in Renmatix Inc. , a King of Prussia early-stage company that produces industrial sugars from wood and other nonfood plant materials that can be used to make chemicals, the companies said Tuesday. Re

German chemical giant BASF invested $30 million in Renmatix Inc. , a King of Prussia early-stage company that produces sugars from wood and other nonfood plant materials that can be used to make industrial chemicals, the companies said Tuesday.Renmatix, a

Six or seven years ago the broader venture capital community took an interest in energy as a category for venture capital investing. Storied venture capitalist like John Doerr and Vinod Khosla began to give speeches, raised lots of capital and put down s

Six or seven years ago the broader venture capital community took an interest in energy as a category for venture capital investing. Storied venture capitalist like John Doerr and Vinod Khosla began to give speeches, raised lots of capital and put down s

It’s not 1982 anymore, and Scott McNealy is no longer one of the many relatively unknown entrepreneurs trying to make it big with a Silicon Valley startup. Twenty-nine years after co-founding Sun Microsystems — a company that once boasted a $200 billion