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...basic, how come most of us are about as familiar with it as we are with life on Mars? Steve Jurvetson, a partner in Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson who has invested in FastParts, an electronics trading exchange, and Sonnet Financial, an online foreign exchange, calls B2B "the iceberg waiting to emerge." "Most people," Jurvetson says, "understand the business-to-consumer market because they are consumers themselves. It's kind of like the Beardstown Ladies' investment protocol: use a product, come to understand it and then invest in it. With business-to-business, though, unless...
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...
...company, Arbusto (Spanish for bush), raising money from a network of East Coast backers who were close to his father and uncle, money manager Jonathan Bush. Among them were drugstore tycoon Lewis Lehrman, who lost a bid for Governor of New York in 1982; venture capitalist William H. Draper III, who would become president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank during the Reagan Administration; and Celanese CEO John Macomber, who later landed the same post...
Madden entered with one out in the seventh andstruck out pinch hitter Derek Draper. But heallowed left fielder Dan Becker to reach on anerror then walked third basenam Mike Conway...
Partly as a result, in 1997 Chicago got the first Kids 'N Need center. That was a welcome event for Diane Draper, who for 17 years had been supplementing her personal $800-a-year kindergarten shopping budget by raiding Dumpsters in back of office-supply stores. "I'd wait in my car like a private eye to see what got dumped," Draper recalls. "Then I'd get on my toes and reach in. A couple of times, I almost fell in." She is delighted with Kids 'N Need. "If this was done everywhere," she says, "it would change the educational...