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To: H James Morris who wrote (102793)	5/4/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: Mark Fowler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Jim take my advice...forget the stock market and go take vacation for a couple of weeks; after you'll have a better perspective on things and feel better. You can get to close to the market's daily noise which could be dangerous for your health.

To: H James Morris who wrote (102793)	5/4/2000 5:46:00 PM
From: schrodingers_cat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Thanks for the article. I've been wondering recently what the impact of a sudden cut-off of VC money might be on the rest of the tech industry, if the slow down in the IPO market lead to VCs cutting back. Venture capitalists poured a record $22.68 billion of new cash into start-up companies in the first quarter ...dwarfs the $6.16 billion invested by venture funds in the first three months of 1999. Thats a lot of money, at an annual rate of $91bn versus $25bn last year. I don't know what start-up business plans look like but if 10% of that is spent at SUNW, ORCL, CSCO, EXDS, INKT, FDRY and others, it may be responsible for much of the huge sales growth these companies are seeing...and a VC slowdown due to demise of IPO market might cause these companies to issue second quarter profit warnings come mid-June leading to severe falls in the nas. OTOH maybe there's so much money in bank accounts waiting to be spent that profit warnings might not materialize for several quarters, if at all?