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Steve Brown Joins MDV Focused on Internet and Healthcare
Brings Media and Systems Experience Aimed at Promoting Healthier Behavior

MENLO PARK, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire/ — MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, (http://www.mdv.com), a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today announced the addition of Steve Brown as an Entrepreneur in Residence. He will work with MDV to pursue opportunities that apply Internet technologies and services to empower consumers and to encourage healthier lifestyles.
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At TEDGlobal 2007, William Kamkwamba showed us how necessity is the mother of invention, making a windmill out of simple scrap materials to power his home in Malawi. Without any money, but armed with a book from the library and some ingenuity, this teenager from a rural village in Malawi gave a fitting answer to an earlier speaker’s opinion that renewable energy is “too expensive” for developing countries.