Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Book Recommendations for Entrepreneurs

What should innovators and financiers be reading to round out their education? Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, shares favorites from his library, some of ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Stock Prices Are Irrelevant

The market is an unimportant, artificial system, says Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, and he encourages entrepreneurs and thinkers to stop paying attention to ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Problem-Solving Paradigm

Take a big problem, apply the best minds to its prospects, add the fuel of entrepreneurial energy and a touch of capitalist greed, and one ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Shaping the Future with Entrepreneurship

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, predicted that the emergence of free long distance phone calls would be free, and that the large telecoms' reliance ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Broad Environmental Solutions Require Brawny Change

Oil and coal account for 65-70 percent of our carbon emissions, followed by the carbon footprint of coal and steel, and these materials are among ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Emerging Energy Solutions Must Compete on Price

Forget every argument and industry lobby previously put forward regarding the evolution of green energy alternatives. For Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, if a ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

The Black Swans of Energy Invention

Toss the old notions of environmentalism into the recycling bin. Investor Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures shatters conventional wisdom of energy reduction, and instead encourages ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Think Big and Act Small

Khosla explains how to think big and act small. He reminds us that part of that process must be done on a belief system. Without ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla: Bit by the Entrepreneurship Bug

Vinod Khosla, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, was bitten by the entrepreneurship bug early in life when he heard about Intel starting up. ...

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Any Big Problem is a Big Opportunity

Khosla states that any big problem is a big opportunity. If there is no problem, there is no solution, and no reason for a company ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla: Envisioning the Future

When things are hot, that's not the area to invest, Khosla cautions. There is a surprise element always present where the biggest opportunities lie. Khosla ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know, Khosla says. The biggest problem is when you don't know what you don't know!

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Role of VC in Valuation

Things aren't ever as good or as bad as we think. Today (2002) is one of the best environments to be an investor. The last three ...

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Company Building to Change the World

Entrepreneurs are far less successful when they are trying to make money--they are much more successful when they have a mission to change the world. ...

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Build a Company to Change the World

Khosla never intended to be a venture capitalist and still doesn't consider himself as one. He considers himself a venture assistant who has little interest ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Taking Risks

Launching a start-up is not a rational act. And Vinod Khosla, a partner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and former Sun Microsystems CEO, believes ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Career: Learning from Failure Early On

Khosla talks about his early career development. He first tried to do a company in India based on milk from soybeans. He travelled to Carnegie ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Technology as Driver of Change

Khosla shares his view on technology-driven entrepreneurship and predicts the growing impact of technology on life, society, and the economy.

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Social Entrepreneurship

In Kleiner Perkins perspective, Khosla argues, the traditional model of giving is broken. Social entrepreneurship and ways to leverage money are very important. Although there ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Strength of a Team

Khosla states that it is the team that make the company. At Kleiner Perkins, he notes that everyone has learned much from each other. Personalities ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Juniper Networks: Customer Feedback

Khosla talks about how Juniper Networks started, and the role of customer feedback in the product development. There was not one vendor thinking of building ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Entrepreneurship is the Driving Engine of the Economy

Khosla believes that entrepreneurship is the driving engine of the economy. Don't give up on your dream, he says, -entrepreneurship is a passion. Follow your ...

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Cycles of Fear and Greed

Khosla claims that investors only have two emotions: fear and greed. He has seen the trend of investing, which bounces between cycles of fear and ...

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Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Career Development: Go Deep

It is important to use time to get deep expertise, Khosla notes. You need to go much deeper in understanding technology--a bachelor's degree is not ...

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