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Sequoia Capital is a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided to early-stage, high-potential, Growth investing companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or mergers and acquisitions of the company....
firm founded by Don Valentine

Don Valentine

Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital"....
in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine

Don Valentine

Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz is a British venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc....
, Doug Leone

Douglas Leone

Douglas M. Leone is a venture capitalist, and has been a partner at Sequoia Capital since 1993. His focus is on Internet and communication investments....
, Gaurav Garg, Michael Goguen, Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens (venture capitalist)

Mark Stevens is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, California.Stevens obtained a Bachelor of Science and master?s degree from the University of Southern California and an Master of Business Administration from Harvard University....
, Jim Goetz, Roelof Botha

Roelof Botha

Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary.He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google....
, and Mark Kvamme.

The firm has offices in the US, China, India and Israel. Sequoia has funded companies including Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products ? particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market....
, Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
, YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
and Google

Google

Google Inc. is an United States public company, earning revenue from AdWords related to its Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut, and YouTube services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the Google Search Appliance....
.

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic , the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation....
noted the business plan

Business plan

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals....
format on his blog and is outlined as:

oia Capital provided venture capital for the following companies:

Sequoia profited well when Google agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65B.

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Sequoia Capital is a venture capital

Venture capital

Don Valentine

Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz is a British venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc....
, Doug Leone

Douglas Leone

Mark Stevens (venture capitalist)

Roelof Botha

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
, YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
and Google

Google

Marc Andreessen

Business plan

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals....
format on his blog and is outlined as:

Clarity of Purpose (Describe objective in one brief sentence.)
Large Markets (Identify existing rapidly growing or changing markets.)
Rich Customers (Identify customers that are willing to pay immediately and with large pocketbooks.)
Focus (Keep it simple. Stay focused on a key value proposition.)
Pain Killers (Identify single element of importance to customer.)
Think Differently (Challenge conventional wisdom. Outwit competitors.)
Company Culture (Company culture is established early. Team should be the smartest in their domain.)
Agility (Keep it quiet and make it fast.)
Frugality (Spend money like it is your own. Focus on critical expenditures. Maximize profitability.)
Inferno (Start with only a little money.)

Portfolio

Sequoia Capital provided venture capital for the following companies:

Name	First Invested	Description	Status
Achates Power		Diesel engine systems.	Private
AdBrite AdBrite AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising firm based in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Philip J. Kaplan and Gidon Wise.AdBrite serves ads on 95,569 websites, according to their published stats , and is the 10th largest ad network on the Internet, according to Media Metrix....		Sell advertising on their websites and blogs	Private
AdMob		Mobile advertising marketplace.	Private
Advanced Power Projects		Power generation systems.	Private
AMCC AMCC AMCC is a four-letter abbreviation which may refer to:Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a semiconductor company.Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA?s Division III....		Provides storage, embedded hardware and software solutions.	Public
Amobee Media Systems Amobee Media Systems Amobee Media Systems, a mobile advertising company, founded in 2005 by , and , created the first ad-serving solution dedicated to mobile operators....		Mobile Advertising Systems for Mobile Operators.	Private
Appirio		SaaS systems integration services.	Private
Applabs Pvt Ltd		Software Testing Company.	Private
Apple Inc.		Designs and manufactures consumer electronics.	IPO
Aricent Aricent Aricent is a telecommunicationss innovation, technology and outsourcing company, offering a portfolio of Service and products for the communications industry ....		Independent communications software company.	Private
Aruba Networks		Delivers enterprise network to users	IPO
Asia Media		Electronic program guide systems.	IPO
Atari Atari Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames ....	1975	Coin-operated video games, coin-operated pinball machines and home game consoles.
Atom Entertainment Atom Entertainment Atom Entertainment is an Internet entertainment company which operates Atom Films, Shockwave.com, AddictingGames.com, and AtomUploads.com, formerly known as AddictingClips.com....		Distributes casual games, short films, and animations on the web.	Acquired by Viacom/MTV
Bihu.com		In-game instant messaging services.	Private
Café Coffee Day Cafe Coffee Day Caf? Coffee Day is a chain of Coffeehouses in India having its headquarters in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka. A division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd....		Coffee distribution and retail services.	Private
Cafepress		Print-on-demand ecommerce site.	Private
CERNET-Koncept		College social networking services.	Private
Challenge Games		Online casual gaming services.	Private
Cisco Cisco Cisco may refer to:Companies:* Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore....		Networking hardware, software, and services.	Public
Correlix		Latency Intelligence™ systems.	Private
Data Connection		Telephony software.	Private
Documentum Documentum Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology....		Enterprise content management.	IPO and later acquired by EMC
Dropbox Dropbox (storage provider) Dropbox is a File hosting service operated by Evenflow, Inc. The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers. Dropbox has a cross-platform client that enables users to drop any file into a Dropbox folder that is then synced to the web and the users' other computers with the Dropbox client....		File sharing and storage.	Private
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is an international video game developer, marketer, video game publisher and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games....		Distributor of computer and video games.	IPO
Eloan		Financial services company that offering home mortgage, home equity, and auto loans.	IPO
FirstSource		Provider of business process management services.	IPO
Flextronics Flextronics Flextronics International Ltd. is a contract electronics maker which provides electronics manufacturing facilities to original equipment manufacturers ....		Worldwide electronics design, fabrication, assembly, and test company.	IPO
Followap Followap Followap is the leading provider of Presence and Instant Messaging solutions to the telecommunications industry. The company was founded in 1999 by the time it was acquired in 2006, Followap had over 17 mobile operators many of them tier-ones, serving a combined user base of over 200 million subscribers....		Mobile Instant Messaging and Presence	Acquired by NeuStar
Funny or Die Funny or Die Funny or Die is a comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company, Gary Sanchez Productions with original and user generated content....		Large media company with multiple vertical websites, including funnyordie.com started with comedian Will Ferrell Will Ferrell 'John William' "'Will'" 'Ferrell' is an United States comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the Roxbury , Old School , Elf , Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bur... .	Private
Gene Security Network		Bioinformatics technology services.	Private
GlobalLogic GlobalLogic GlobalLogic is an information technology company based in Virginia, USA founded in 2000. It is a privately held company funded by NEA, Sequoia Capital, and Draper Atlantic, the Mid-Atlantic affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson....		Outsourced software development services.	Private
Google Google Google Inc. is an United States public company, earning revenue from AdWords related to its Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut, and YouTube services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the Google Search Appliance....		Search Engine.	IPO
Gracenote Gracenote Gracenote, Inc. formerly called CDDB is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs....		Digital media data management software.	Private
Green Dot Corporation Green Dot Corporation Green Dot Corporation is an issuer of prepaid Discover Card, MasterCard, and Visa International Service Association cards in the United States. These products are available at nearly 50,000 retail stores, including CVS/pharmacy, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and RadioShack....		Prepaid credit cards.	Private
Guruji.com Guruji.com Guruji.com is an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context....		Local search services.	Private
Idea Cellular Idea cellular IDEA Cellular is a publicly listed company, having listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Idea Cellular is a leading GSM mobile service operator with pan India licenses....		Cellular services, SMS services and mobile communication devices.	IPO
imeem Imeem imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all digital media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video....		Social media networking services.	Private
Infoblox		Core network services.	Private
Isilon		Modular network storage solutions designed for large digital files.	IPO
IT Structures		Virtual sales engagement software.	Private
Jajah Jajah Jajah is a VoIP provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg....		Consumer VoIP services.	Private
Jawbone (headset) Jawbone (headset) Jawbone is a brand of Bluetooth headset made by Aliph, a company founded by Alexander Asseily and Hosain Rahman and based in San Francisco. The Jawbone headset was designed by Yves Behar....		Bluetooth headsets.	Private
Jive Software		Enterprise 2.0 collaboration software.	Private
Joost Joost Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennstr?m and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used P2PTV to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead....		Online TV services.	Private
Kayak.com Kayak.com Kayak.com is a travel search website based in the United States. Founded in 2004, it wikt:aggregate information from over 100 other travel sites and helps users book flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars....		Travel search services.	Private
Kenshoo		Search Engine Marketing Platform.	Private
LinkedIn LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-oriented social network service founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking....		Online network that helps you find and be found by former colleagues.	Private
Loglogic		Log data systems.	Private
Loopt Loopt Loopt is a company based in Mountain View, California, United States. It provides a cellphone-based GPS sharing system that allows users to visualize one another using their cell phones and share information....		Mobile social networking services.	Private
Luxim Luxim Luxim is a privately owned high-tech company based in Sunnyvale, California, which was founded in 2000.Luxim has developed the LIFI solid state electrodeless lamp lighting system....		Solid state high intensity light source technology.	Private
LSI Logic		Provider of silicon, systems and software technologies.	IPO
Mahalo.com Mahalo.com Mahalo.com is a web directory launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. As of January 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like Open Directory Project and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for ma...		Human powered search services.	Private
Mark Logic Mark Logic Mark Logic is a software company located in San Carlos, California, California, United States. It is the creator of a new category of enterprise software known as an XML Server....		XML server software.	Private
Meebo Meebo Meebo is an Ajax -based in-browser instant messaging program which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, .NET Messenger Service, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MySpaceIM, Facebook Chat and Jabber; it is based on the free software and open source software library libpurple created by the software developers of Pi...		Instant messaging services.	Private
Mellanox Technologies		Provider of InfiniBand technology.	IPO
Meraki Meraki Meraki is a network equipment manufacturer that provides hardware and software for wireless mesh networks. It creates a wireless network that coordinates with Meraki servers to distribute Internet bandwidth....		Mesh wireless networking.	Private
Merlin Securities		Mesh wireless networking.	Private
Microchip Technology Microchip Technology Microchip Technology is an USA manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors. The company was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary....		Manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors.	IPO
Netezza Netezza Netezza is a computer hardware/software company, whose primary product is an Massively parallel processing data warehouse appliance. Netezza is widely credited for either inventing or bringing renewed attention to the data warehouse appliance category, depending upon whether one regards long-time data warehouse technology vendor Teradata as...		Provider of enterprise data warehouse appliances.	IPO
Netscreen		Networking and security solutions.	IPO and later acquired by Juniper Networks Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996.... , Inc.
Netshops NetShops NetShops is an online retail company based in Omaha, Nebraska, The United States of America that owns and operates over 230 online stores featuring a wide variety of products....		Niche retailer services.	Private
NetApp		Provides an integrated solution that enables storage, delivery, and management of network data.	IPO
NVIDIA NVIDIA Nvidia is a multinational corporation specializing in the manufacture of graphics processing unit technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices....		Technologies for video cards, graphics cards, notebooks, workstations, and desktop PCs.	IPO
Paypal PayPal PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as Cheque and money orders....		Internet payment services.	IPO and later acquired by Ebay
Plaxo Plaxo Plaxo is an online address book and social networking service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring....		Address book services.	Acquired by Comcast Comcast Comcast Corporation is the largest cable television company, the second largest Internet service provider and the fourth largest telephone service provider in the United States.... in 2008.
PixelWorks		Designs, develops and markets highly integrated system-on-a-chip solutions for broadband communications.	IPO
PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra is a fabless semiconductor company which develops and sells devices into the communications, storage, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces....		Broadband communications and storage chips.	IPO
Pure Digital Technologies Pure Digital Technologies Pure Digital Technologies is an American company, well known for its line of one-time use digital camcorders, as well as the Flip Video brand of reusable camcorders....		Digital imaging systems, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders.	Private
Rackspace Rackspace Rackspace US, Inc. is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands and data centers operating in Texas, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008....		Managed hosting service provider.	IPO
Rayspan		Metamaterial air interface systems.	Private
Renhe		Commercial property development services.	Private
RingCentral RingCentral RingCentral is a virtual PBX service that manages a company?s phone, mobile, fax and email communications through a single toll free number and an online control center....		Small business telecommunications services.	Private
RockYou		Slideshow widgets.	Private
Royal Orchid Hotels		Hotel chain catering to business travelers.	IPO
Ruckus Ruckus Ruckus may refer to:...		Smart Wi-Fi systems.	Private
Satellier Satellier Satellier Inc. is a US based company, headquartered in Chicago, IL with operations in India. The company provides global workshare services to architecture, engineering, construction and owner-operated partners....	2000	Outsourced AEC design services.	Private
Satnav Technologies		Mobile mapping and navigation services.	Private
SCIOinspire		Healthcare accounting services.	Private
Silent Communication		Call completion services for mobile operators.	Private
Sourcefire Sourcefire Sourcefire, Inc develops network security hardware and software. The Sourcefire 3D System is based on Snort , an open-source intrusion detection engine....		Network security.	IPO
Stardoll Stardoll Stardoll is a browser game based around the paper doll concept. Launched in 2006, the website was attracting a reported 8 million unique users a month , who dress up dolls using a range of tools and can participate in interactive activities depending on the type of account they use....		Girls social networking.	Private
Storwize		Storage compression systems.	Private
Sugar Inc.		Women's publishing.	Private
Tokbox Tokbox File:tokbox.jpg...		Video communications services.	Private
Trulia		Real estate search services.	Private
Ujjivan		Microfinance services.	Private
Widgetbox Widgetbox Widgetbox is a San Francisco, California based company that enables people to find, make and distribute web widgets for blogging, social networking services, and personal websites....		Widget marketplace services.	Private
Xoom Corporation Xoom Corporation Xoom Corporation is a U.S.-based money transfer company headquartered in San Francisco. The company was founded in 2001 and is backed by the venture firms Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Fidelity Ventures....		Global money transfer services.	Private
Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....		Web Portal.	IPO
YouTube YouTube YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....		Hosts user-generated videos.	Acquired by Google
Yodlee Yodlee Yodlee, headquartered in Redwood City, CA, provides account aggregation and other online financial services. Yodlee allows users to see their credit card, bank, investment, email, travel reward accounts, etc....		Online data aggregation and online Bill Pay service provider.	Private
Zappos.com Zappos.com Zappos.com is an electronic commerce company specializing in Shoe and is currently based in Henderson, Nevada, USA. The company warehouse is located in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, along with an outlet store....	N/A List of acronyms and initialisms: N List of acronyms and initialisms* n - Nano* N - Newton - Nitrogen - North...	Online Retailer	Private

Sequoia profited well when Google agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65B. It is believed that Sequoia's $11M investment translated to 30% of the ownership.

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