Are These The VC Firms That Actually Fund Innovation?


Venture capital firms in the U.S. spent $29.4 billion funding young companies last year. (That’s more than the national GDPs of about half the countries in the world.) Some of that cash went to...

Tom Perkins And Five Other Supervillain Moments From Silicon Valley


Action movie villains suffer from a curious compulsion to explain their evil schemes, usually while the hero is surreptitiously working his hands free of the ropes binding them to a doomsday machine...

Tim Draper Loves Bitcoin, Pebble Watch And China


It’s the second week of 2014, and I’m on my way to visit the world’s innovation center, Silicon Valley, for the first time. My destination: 2882 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park in California. I’m to meet...