Here is VC alpha dog John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, speaking at the TED Conference in March.

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The twist is that Chalmers was once an alpha dog himself.

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The biggest question looming over the team right now is how he and Lin will coexist when the team's biggest gunner and resident alpha dog returns.

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The firm's alpha dog and green weeper, John Doerr, is convinced that solar and cellulosic ethanol will see Moore's Law gains if you assemble the world's best and brightest minds to work on it.

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The social-network-based game pits 50 dogs and their owners against each other in various challenges to become the "alpha dog" of their communities -- who will then lead the quest to find 50 hidden virtual dogs by way of other challenges and dog-based activities.

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Who's the alpha dog?

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When he messily switched teams, gave up his Alpha Dog status to teammate Dwyane Wade, and still failed to win a championship in his first year, the naysayers seized on every opportunity to call him a choke artist, a waste of talent, a loser.

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This was good practice for playing alpha sled dog, and required a lot of aggressive shouting.

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The result is a stare down to see who blinks first, and who becomes the alpha-dog.

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