What a pioneering idea, it paved the way for Kickstarter, which is growing like a weed, and changing the way we think about funding startups (Kickstarter is Fred Wilson company, btw, and Google is a John Doerr company). So Google started out on the...

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 renewable...

But Obama’s investor-advisers aren’t free market Republicans, such as Mitt, who argues that his investments have helped create 110,000 jobs in the last 20 years. Instead, they’re Democrats, and they include John Doerr, a senior partner at...

She also serves on the board and audit committee of accounting software builder Intuit (NAS: INTU) , so the whole auditing job isn't exactly new to her. The other three members of Google's audit committee are Kleiner, Perkins partner John Doerr, noted...

Google Inc. said Thursday that Diane Greene, a co-founder of VMware Inc. , has joined its board of directors, adding an executive with business-software experience to its ranks. Google disclosed in a regulatory filing that Greene, 56, will serve on the...

But this shines a light on another reality of value creation: you have to ensure that others want to see you succeed and prosper, and the only way to do that is to hand out equity; as John Doerr says “no conflict, no interest”. Once you have investors...