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John Doerr: The Next Big Thing

This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on the iPad. This post goes into a lot more detail on KP’s investments in [...]

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Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

TRUSTe Places Privacy Seal Of Approval On Virtual Currency Platform gWallet

Virtual currency platform gWallet is announcing a partnership with online privacy certification company TRUSTe to reinforce gWallet ethical guidelines in the virtual currency space. gWallet partners with both brands and game developers to bring users virtual currency offers on games within social networks.
Following the Scamville controversy in the virtual offers space, the startups which [...]

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Mon, March 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Sources: Spotify Takes Investment From Sean Parker At Founders Fund

This is has not been confirmed by either party, but we’ve heard from multiple sources that European music startup Spotify has closed a venture investment from Founders Fund. Managing Partner Sean Parker, who was a cofounder of Napster and President of Facebook, led the round for Founders Fund, and we believe he may have take [...]

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Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments