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GUEST MENTOR Bing Gordon , general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers : Just as first-round football quarterbacks benefit from great coaches, budding entrepreneurs need mentors.

For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar , co-founder and CEO of Parse.

Venture capital-backed lithium ion battery startup Amprius is finally moving into commercial production, with an announcement that it has OEM partners in place, and will start making its second-gen batteries later this year.

Flipboard recently unveiled a new version of its successful tablet magazine app as the entire staff stood around their Palo Alto, Calif.

Heather Tomkins, a Web Design and New Media graduate student at Academy of Art University, will be spending the summer working at Klout, the San Francisco tech company that measures the influence of social media users, thanks to the Kleiner Perkins Design Fellows Program.

From The Wall Street Journal , about the moderate Republican : "The former Secretary of State, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and decorated Vietnam veteran is now a limited partner with renowned Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers desperately trying to become digital all these years,' Powell said, adding that ... (more)

According to a new report from Brand Perfect, considering global publishing for a digital generation, sales of tablets and smartphones will outstrip desktop sales by two to one, with tablets alone on target to do so in 2013.

Highlights of the event included keynotes and panels with tech innovators Mary Meeker, general partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Angie Hicks, founder and CMO, Angie's List; Craig Kielburger, Free The Children and Me To We cofounder; and top executives from DocuSign customers Allergan, Cox, Hewlett-Packard, Iron Mountain, Lennar, LinkedIn, ... (more)

General Colin Powell became a venture capitalist after leaving public life and realizing one morning that his wife of 51 years, Alma, wasn't just going to let him stay at home and sit around with nothing to do.

PernixData closes on $20 million round . Software-defined storage platform company PernixData announced the close of an over-subscribed $20 million Series B financing.

EdgeSpring said on Thursday that it raised a total of $11 million in financing including a $9 million series A from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Lightspeed Ventures .

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

Watch Julie Uhrman, Founder and CEO of Ouya, talk about her startup which just raised $15 million in new Funding.

As we discussed yesterday, venture capital is one of the few asset classes or types of investment where we see persistence of outperformance .

Silicon Valley venture capitalists like to crow that it's now cheaper than ever to establish a startup company.

Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has raised another $130 million, according to Fortune Magazine's Dan Primack , bringing the company's total fundraising to $1.1 billion.

Software companies are so last decade. Instead, venture capitalists are looking to hardware companies for investment opportunities and the next big wave of innovation.

Since 2006, P2P & online lending have enjoyed explosive growth. Lending Club and Prosper , America's two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination, and P2P has captured the attention of industry legends, the financial media, the investing public and even today's technology giants.

As USA Today's Brett Molina writes , "For fans of the new Ouya game console, there's good news and bad news." First, the bad news: The launch of the low-cost Android-based gaming system has been delayed by three weeks.

Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy has raised $130 million in new venture capital funding, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.