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Feb04

Venture Capital

Randy Komisar, Partner Kleiner Perkins: Investors have to Marry their Mission to Outsize Returns

Pemo Theodore

Randy Komisar, Partner Kleiner Perkins speaks about venture capital @Investors Circle Spring Forum. As much as the individuals @KPCB may be mission driven, they have to marry mission to outsize returns. Scale is a very important part of what he has...

Feb03

Venture Capital

Randy Komisar, KPCB: Capital Looks for the Easiest Way Out

Pemo Theodore

Randy Komisar, Partner KPCB speaks about Scale @Investors Circle Spring Forum. Everything in our business schools, trade press & investment communities suggest that Scale is the only thing worth investing in. He feels that is a huge mistake. He...

FinTech Silicon Valley

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Duncan Davidson Founding Partner Bullpen Capital, the pioneer of Post Seed investing. Previously, two bubble era IPOs (InterTrust and Covad) and two other startups (SkyPilot and Xumii, the first mobile cloud app). Being the pitch person on one of them at the peak of the bubble, I learned firsthand that venture capital is a cyclical business. During the bubble, speed matters; during the downturn, two successful strategies: long-term, deep tech; and short-term, value investing in oversold but otherwise solid companies. Bullpen was crafter for both bull and bear markets. The key: help the companies succeed, not focus on the deal.