Kleiner Perkins Venture Capital: Business Plans Please
Dr. Paul Kedrosky, of Infectious Greed fame, has a love hate relationship with business plans, as I have been chronicling, since the celebrity venture capitalist headlined: “The Twitter lesson: No Business Plans please.”
JULY: Extra! Dr. Kedrosky VC Lesson: Business Plan Required
AUGUST: Dabble DB Kedrosky VC Lesson: Business Model Required
SEPTEMBER: Infectious Greed takes Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to task (or gives them an ‘ol boy slap on the back) headling “Kleiner Perkins: No Business Plans Please”
Really? Kedrosky reports on his investigation of the Kleiner Perkins Web site:
Just for fun, I role-played being an entrepreneur looking for money. I entered “business plan” in the KPCB search box, with the following result: “Your search did not match any documents”
Apparently business plans aren’t high on the list of things Kleiner is looking for.
Maybe not high, Paul, but they ARE on the list, if you look closely enough: 1) Click on Offices and 2) Email your business plan to KPCB via plans@kpcb.com
Also, not to worry about “whatever happened to trumpeting portfolio news?” at Kleiner Perkins: Just click on “PORTFOLIO” at the top of every Web page and you will be able to do your competitive research by reviewing:
Companies by Inititative
Private Companies Alphabetically
Public Companies
BTW, if you are seriously considering submitting a business plan, Paul, here is a primer, courtesy of Sequoia Capital, where business plans ARE required: Want Sequoia Funding? Submit a Business Plan: Here’s How
TIP: What does ex-Microsoftie and now Kleiner Perkins partner, Russel Siegelman, want to see in a business plan? What problem you are trying to solve, and why it is economically interesting to solve it.
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