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Kleiner Perkins and the next big thing

In some ways, you could call Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers the Goldman Sachs  of the venture capital industry. The storied firm has long defined excellence, and is associated with some of the great start-ups in recent memory, like Genentech, Netscape, Amazon and of course Google. (I was

Hedge fund launches slow down

The general thinking out there is that the hedge fund  industry continues to attract assets, which suggests that the boom times will continue, albeit with the normal volatility. But we've noted before that this is primarily a big fund firm phenomenon. The big guys keep carving out a larger shar