“From the San Jose Mercury News, a report on venture capital honchos John Doerr and John Denniston’s push for investment in clean and green technology at last week’s Cleantech Venture Network conference…”

“More bad news for actively managed mutual funds: A ’survivor bias’ in the Morningstar mutual fund data relied upon by most individual investors and financial advisors has the effect of ’systematically and significantly’ overstating the performance of actively managed mutual funds relative to their related indexes for the 10-year period from 1995-2004, according to a major new study to be released today by Savant Capital Management Inc., of Rockford, IL., and the Zero Alpha Group (ZAG).” (Thanks kottke.org!)

“[T]he two Johns (who will be performing a duet at PC Forum) embody their own message: They are more productive as a team. Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox and long-time leader of Xerox PARC, has more of a philosophical, scientific bent, while Hagel, a long-time McKinsey consultant now working on his own, has a closer-to-the-metal appreciation of business realities and strategies.”