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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">John Doerr talks about his top 3&nbsp;verticals</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;by J.O'Dell @ventureBeat - John Doerr(@Kleiner Perkins) talks about his top 3 verticals, (education, healthcare, revolutionary hardware) and provides examples of each</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/11/want-money-investor-legend-john-doerr-names-his-top-3-verticals/" target="_blank">http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/11/want-money-investor-legend-john-doerr-names-his-top-3-verticals/</a></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li>] education - free online academy's like ... and others</li> <ol> <li>Khan Academy,&nbsp;</li> <li>Coursera</li> </ol> <li>] healthcare -&nbsp;</li> <ol> <li>MyFitnessPal -&nbsp;They built a profitable business on their own savings. They&rsquo;ve got 45 million users around the world, and their users last year lost 100 million pounds.&rdquo;</li> </ol> <li>] hardware -&nbsp;</li> <ol> <li>KPCB has created an initiative called Low-Power Everywhere. This includes research and investment in companies that promote battery efficiency, display energy efficiency, and all kinds of initiatives for greener devices and better use of energy resources</li> <li>The game changer would be to &hellip; triple the energy density in batteries. We&rsquo;ve got a venture working on that.&rdquo; With lighter, more powerful batteries, Doerr said, &ldquo;My dream is that we could make electric vehicles as cheap or cheaper than internal combustion.&rdquo;</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <div> <div>Johannes Suriya Bhakdi &bull; 5 months ago &minus;</div> <div>Google, Apple, Amgen, Microsoft, Zynga, Linkedin, Airbnb, Dropbox. What do they all have in common? They didn't fall into any "hot" category in the time they were founded and funded. VC doesn't work this way, and the demise of KPCB is another example for that. I don't want to be mean, but thousands of great new entrepreneurs who don't get funding because of uninspired VCs need our attention.</div> </div> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>