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Technology Stocks : Moderated Comdisco
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To: KevRupert who started this subject8/8/2000 9:15:59 PM
From: KevRupert  Read Replies (1) of 86
 
Maintaining a diversified customer base

Comdisco Ventures provides financing products to customers diversified across many industry sectors. This diversification reduces the impact to
Comdisco Ventures should there be a downturn in any sector.

The following chart illustrates customer industry sector diversification by aggregate commitments from October 1, 1996 through March 31, 2000:

Communications & Networking 27%
Computer Hardware & Semiconductors 7%
Internet 40%
Life Sciences 8%
Other Products & Services 2%
Software & Computer Services 16%
Comdisco Ventures often provides financings to several venture capital-backed companies in a specific emerging industry sector in order to increase
the likelihood of aligning itself with the most successful venture capital-backed companies within that sector. Because most venture capitalists have significant equity ownership, board representation and strategic alignment with
management of the companies in which they invest, they can be limited in their abilities to invest in multiple companies within a single industry sector.

Comdisco Ventures, due to its limited ownership and lack of strategic involvement (e.g. typically no board representation) generally avoids these
kinds of conflict limitations. This allows Comdisco Ventures to diversify its financings across several start-ups within an industry sector.
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