Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Amazon-acquired-Zappos, joined Sequoia in 2010, and he, along with former Googler Bryan Schreier, Aaref Hilaly and a few others, are part of the new, rising guard of VCs at the firm.
The trade came at a high price for the Clippers, who dealt a rising star, guard Eric Gordon; the Minnesota Timberwolves' unprotected 2012 first-round selection; and two other valuable assets (Al-Farouq Aminu and Chris Kaman's expiring contract) to New Orleans.
Mike Wise arrived on the beat for The Times after the worst New Jersey episode in Nets history, the 1993 death of a rising shooting guard from Croatia, Drazen Petrovic, in a car accident in Germany.
So we assembled a small group of Generation Y women who are part of the Silicon Valley's rising new guard — people that are arguably the perfect target audience to hear and respond to Sandberg's message that women should "lean in" to their careers even as they start to think about building their own families and personal lives.
As we mentioned yesterday, we took an in-depth look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead with a number of Generation Y women who are part of the Silicon Valley's rising new guard.
Cleveland has a rising young point guard in Andre Miller.
Darryl Morsell, a rising senior combo guard at Mount Saint Joseph, released his top five college choices Tuesday: Virginia Tech, Villanova, Dayton, Notre Dame and Maryland.
He noted that some curators have risen from guards to heads of departments, though, in the short term, "everyone working here has a duty to fulfill," he said.
The king gave no support to this movement and, in a cowardly fashion, disowned a rising of the guards' regiments that backed it.
While a shrinking economy is its main focus, the Bank of Japan is on guard against rising prices.
The Spurs' rising star at point guard, the 20-year-old Tony Parker, scored 27 points, as San Antonio's duo out-dueled O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
