http://www.startup-book.com/2009/02/09/about-kleiner-perkins-first-fund-episode-3/ What we may still learn from Silicon Valley Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.startup-book.com/2009/02/09/about-kleiner-perkins-first-fund-episode-3/#comment-113702 Start-Up: the book » Blog Archive » When Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia co-invest(ed). Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:20:15 +0000 http://www.startup-book.com/?p=198#comment-113702 [...] already said a lot about these two firms. You can for example read again the following on KP: - About KP first fund (3 posts) - Tom Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist - Robert Swanson, 1947-1999 and about [...] [...] already said a lot about these two firms. You can for example read again the following on KP: - About KP first fund (3 posts) - Tom Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist - Robert Swanson, 1947-1999 and about [...]

]]> http://www.startup-book.com/2009/02/09/about-kleiner-perkins-first-fund-episode-3/#comment-8291 Start-Up: the book » Blog Archive » Bob Swanson & Herbert Boyer: Genentech Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:57:19 +0000 http://www.startup-book.com/?p=198#comment-8291 [...] The legend says that Bob Swason, a 29-year old venture capitalist, met Herbert Boyer, a professor at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). The money of Bob and the ideas of Herbert made possible the creation of Genentech in 1976, followed by its IPO in 1980. The story deserves however a little more attention. Bob Swanson was not really an investor. He is an entrepreneur. he has been hired by Kleiner and Perkins (KP) who had understood that the real value of a venture capital firm is to create company and not only to fund them. They understood this after the success of Tandem and Jimmy Treybig whom they financed from day 1 in 1974. (See KP first fund). [...] [...] The legend says that Bob Swason, a 29-year old venture capitalist, met Herbert Boyer, a professor at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). The money of Bob and the ideas of Herbert made possible the creation of Genentech in 1976, followed by its IPO in 1980. The story deserves however a little more attention. Bob Swanson was not really an investor. He is an entrepreneur. he has been hired by Kleiner and Perkins (KP) who had understood that the real value of a venture capital firm is to create company and not only to fund them. They understood this after the success of Tandem and Jimmy Treybig whom they financed from day 1 in 1974. (See KP first fund). [...]

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