They backed Doug Hoffman, an accountant, who is running on the Conservative Party line.

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On October 22nd Sarah Palin fired a missive from her increasingly powerful Facebook page calling on Republican activists to ditch the Republican and support Doug Hoffman instead.

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These five firms all had at least one team member make the top ten, and Sequoia ( Doug Leone and Jim Goetz) and Greylock ( Reid Hoffman and David Sze) are the only firms to have two representatives in the top ten.

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