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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...
...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...