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10.30.99

IAII Program Committee

Los Altos

Hal: Investor over a lifetime.

10.29.99

Open House

IAII

A sweet deal with ultraconductors-believe it!

10.26.99

A discussion

LTV

In the door?

10.23.99

A Good Read

Euphrate Museum

A volume on Einstein's STR, intellectually and aesthetically sophisticated.

10.22.99

Steve Jurvetson

Thought Leaders Seminar, STVP

A mental whirlwind on Internet start-ups from a volcanoe of revolution.

10.20.99

Michael Lewis, Karl Karlsgard, The New New Thing

The Churchill Club

Is Jim Clark's life a good human life? The author implies an answer in writing of J.C.'s life, no?

10.19.99

Corporate VCs

IAII

Learned of a start-up to pinpoint viral, bacterial, etc. infection and its implications for world health.

10.13.99

SVASE Program Committee

Buck's

Interning discussed.

10.7.99

Zanker, Fonstad, Needleman, When The Bubble Bursts

SVASE

We're at the beginning of the revolution and there's no stopping it.

9.23.99

A tour of Replay TV

Mountain View

Direct TV; what you want, when you want.

9.22.99

The Future of Online Entertainment

The Churchill Club

The first big Internet "hit" will be proof of concept for the future of online entertainment, unless the future is now.

9.16.99

8 Asian VCs

IAII, Palo Alto

A big line-up from the far east.

8.99

Internet Research, University of California at San Diego, Super Computing Center

San Diego

A great guy, my brother, gives me a tour and we see 3-d hyperbolic visualization tools for watching real-time Internet traffic.

9.3.99

Tech-Venture Dinner

Palo Alto

Chicagoans touch base with one another.

8.26.99

Steve Chou

ONSET Ventures, SVASE.

Basics in the venture process.

8.13.99

Levi's

Union Square, SF

A tour of new information technologies in fashion.

8.11.99

Sandy Reed, Editor-in-Chief, Info-World

FWE, Cooley Godward, PA

How to approach media.

8.1.99

Re-thinking Identity, Vesta Varza

WORKS, San Jose

Iranian Women, mummuring in that Iranian sort of way.

7.30.99

Ad Revenue and E-Commerce Business Models, Mei Lin Fun and Group

STRATIX

New media, new tests, new models, an adventure.

7.26.99

Consultant Compensation, Julia Rasor

FWE

Stock is an incentive, but often not of value.

7.22.99

The Secrets of an IPO Roadshow Success, Jerry Weissman, Power Presentations Ltd.

The Wharton Club of Northern California

It is even possible to upset the audiences expectations, so long as you give what they want.

7.22.99

The Honorable Tung Chee Hwa, CE, HK Special Administrative Region

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office

A far-thinking Chief and City. Two hundred and ninety CDs for an ancient Chinese text, now digitized.

7.21.99

Cate Cavanaugh, Panasonic VC

FWE

Their founder is unique and their incubator is launching at the end of August.

7.20.99

Sunday Lollygagging

The Wiefling Estate

Gracious leisure along with SJS's first female engineering student (she worked with E. Teller on the Manhattan Project and I TA-ed with his son - small world!)and other SV luminaries.

7.14.99

Dymanic XML Servers, Bob Bickel, SVP, Bluestone Software

XML SIG, SDForum

Ultimately, you even end up programming in XML.

7.9.99

Kent Manske, Eckland, Wylde, The Archeology of Being

WORKS, San Jose

My being soared with Kent's floating world.

7.8.99

many Angels, Kick-off for the International Angel Investors Institute

Hiller Air Museum

Stan Hiller parks his airplane out back.

6.29.99

Larsen (Net Perceptions), Austere (Vignette), 1-1 Personalization Strategies for eCommerce

SDF eCommerce SIG, HP Cupertino

Personalization starts before one even gets to a site. Preference data tells more.

6.22.99

Schiff, Nash Pera, Griffin, Kline, Brosseau, Schmooze 101

FWE Consulting SIG, Shoreline

I win a book on the topic.

6.21.99

Re-inventing Commerce at Net Speed

The Rodin Sculpture Garden, Stanford

Materials of America's early and later history will not make it into electronic archives, so we are about to lose much history.

6.16.99

Atwell, Saper, Hanafi, Koenig, Yang, Zachary, Quattrone, So You Want To Go Public?

PWC, Sunnyvale

A real SV line up, with nuts and bolts insight.

6.15.99

best wishes, Shiyana

FWE

She's off to Sri Lanka and back for something terrific in SV!

6.8.99

Hans Severeince meets Tech-Venture

WSGR

At least once per year, someone sends in a proposal for building a perpetual motion machine. Other proposals have been backed more readily than these.

6.4.99

Julia Annas, Should Virtue Make You Happy?

The Department of Philosophy, Stanford

Examples of no consideration to alternative courses of action and the idea that we are not so different than the ancients when it comes to our happiness.

6.3.99

Tony Blake, Larry Cohen, Roy Martinez, George Sollman, Corporate Venture Capital and Partnerships

SVASE

Many metaphors for dealing with corporate venture funds are raised. Executive Summaries?: Two pages, max.

5.24.99

Anita Borg, Women in Multimedia

Alumni Resources, San Francisco

The mission of The Institute for Women in Technology is discussed.

5.20.99

FWE

Laura and Alexander's, Palo Alto

Plans for Venture2000 discussed.

5.14.99

Geoffrey Yang, Institutional Venture Partners

Thought Leaders Seminar, The Stanford Technology Ventures Program

"Make hay while the sun shines!" G. Yang is baling the hay hard because the sun is blazing. He explains how it is as reasonable to plan for a $1B company as it is to plan for a $200M company in this singularly liquid moment.

5.13.99

Michael Friedman, Rationality, Revolution, and the Community of Inquiry

The Kant Lectures, Stanford

A scientific revolution provides a new, reasonable, more generalized framework for our outlook of matters and shows previous outlooks as special limited cases of new views. Peter Smith is astounded at Friedman's vearing away from epistemic relativism and I am astounded at Friedman's failing to advance Kant's view that, in utmost hope, inquiry makes progress towards Truth.

5.11.99

Michael Friedman, The Idea of a Scientific Philosophy

The Kant Lectures, Stanford

Again, a philosopher attempting to circumscribe Philosophy, this time in contrast to science which Friedman presumes offers more rational consensus than do more humanistic disciplines.

5.7.99

Gary Hamel, The Strategos Institute

Thought Leaders Seminar, The Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Revolution is underway now and denial of this in established organizations is monumental.

5.6.99

Susan Mason, ONSET Ventures, Breakfast

Il Fornio, SVASE

A nascent business is informed by venture planning prior to its conception.

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