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To: dbblg who wrote (81071)	10/18/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

re: your comment about not finding interesting work. Several people I know have suggested that since VCs have more money than they could manage at the old funding levels, they have been pursuing startups aimed at bigger, often more boring, markets which they can fund at much higher levels. Does this jive w/your experience? Well, I don't know about the boring markets part, it depends on your definition, for example webvan being in the grocery business, is that boring or not... I definitely think the VCs are interested in big projects these days... I remember some meetings I was in last year where the company involved was looking for $5mm, chicken feed really, but thats what a software startup needed then. I'll be you couldn't even get those meetings now with that particular VC.. they wouldn't be interested. I think I'm like a lot of people that fall within this void where trading is more lucrative than work. The problem is trading from home is too isolate for me. Most of the people on this thread don't work I think. Even Kissy doesn't seem to be working. Edit - I just verified with etrade that agil, icge and arba are all marginable. None of those are marginable at Discover. Forget it, I'm leaving discover...