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...Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute and Donald Bruce of the Church of Scotland; legal scholar Bartha Knoppers; brain scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Lieut. General Paul Van Riper, U.S.M.C. (ret.); futurist Paul Saffo; Whole Earth cataloger Stewart Brand; venture capitalists Christopher Meyer and Steve Jurvetson; and two of my favorite science writers (outside of my own staff, of course), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Matt Ridley (Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters...
That was the start of meVC, which in June launched its $330 million meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund 1, taking stakes in such start-ups as Internet telephony player Pagoo and e-commerce firm Auctionwatch. Much like shares in a regular, closed-end mutual fund, meVC shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: MVC). Unfortunately, because of this year's groggy market, meVC shares closed at $12.88 last week, down 36% from their initial price of $20. Since VC bets are notoriously risky, many critics think small-time investors shouldn't be fooling around with this business. Freudenthal...
...months, corporate heavyweights IBM, News Corp., Time Warner (parent of TIME) and Arthur Andersen, to name a few, have launched their own funds. Even the CIA has set up a venture arm, In-Q-Tel. And later this year, Silicon Valley start-up MeVC, along with VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will roll out a publicly traded venture fund that lets individuals with a net worth of at least $150,000 plunk down a minimum of $5,000 to play...
VENTURE OUT Sick of reading about venture capitalists making a mint by investing in dotcoms before they go public? Well, thanks to a newfangled mutual fund announced last week, you can plant seed capital. To be eligible for the fund, which VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson will roll out next year with meVC.com investors must earn $50,000, have $50,000 in the bank and plunk down at least $5,000. Just remember: most venture-capital bets are losers. Yours could...
Still, profits are profits, and a better way of doing business will win out. Says Draper Fisher venture partner Jurvetson: "No business today can doubt that over the next five to 10 years they are going to be massively moving their business processes and their business communications over to the Internet...