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Technology Stocks : divine interVentures, Inc. (DVIN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (95)	5/30/2000 4:07:00 PM
From: Edwin S. Fujinaka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 246

This rescheduled IPO for Divine may actually wind up being a true test of the Internet Venture Capital Market. My primary interest has always been as an investor in the real first Internet Zaibatsu, Softbank. I was originally amused at Flip calling Divine Interventures the first internet zaibatsu. It was hard to take Flip seriously at first, but after getting beyond his hype, I concluded that there was some substance there and he had a chance to succeed with his original IPO for DVIN, but fate intervened and the high tech internet market collapsed. If Flip had been a couple of months earlier, he would have been hailed as a hero and a visionary and he would have had a ton of money in his coffers. Now he will have to work and do the selling job of his life. His IPO is a crapshoot at this point. I look forward to watching from the sidelines. I wish him success, but I am not betting on it...