UPDATE 1-INSIGHT-How cleantech tarnished Kleiner and VC star John Doerr
January 16, 2013 at 15:34 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, Jan 16 (Reuters) - In the spring of last year, John Doerr received some bad news: Miasole, the solar-panel maker backed by his famed venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was on the verge of bankruptcy.