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Perkins Kleiner Caufield and Byers, a large Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, recently announced that it is doubling its investment into green technologies. If you were thinking of approaching them or any VC with your new biodegradable dog leashes, you may want to re-think that. Look carefully at what they Perkins Kleiner is investing in: KPCB Partner John Doerr said ‘The largest trend on the planet is urbanization as the number of people living in megacities triples from 2 billion to 6 billion.

There are enormous needs for clean water, power, and trans-portation. The partners of KPCB are doubling their commitment to Global Greentech Innovation (GGI) at the Clinton Global Initiative with $200 million over the next two years. We’re already backing 11 Greentech ventures with breakthrough technologies in biofuels, solar cells, fuel cells, storage, energy management and conservation. And we look for many more. Now 19 KPCB partners are applying our 35-year track record of start-up…

Small business owners have smaller margins for error than our larger big-company counterparts. One way a person, a company, can stand out and avoid error is to respect people’s time. By being on time. Your Business Blogger was reminded of this truth last year while working with small businesses in a trade show.

Some 10,000 of us sat of the feet of the keynote speaker Karen Hughes, presidential advisor.