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To: H James Morris who wrote (127140)	6/24/2001 10:01:48 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

"Certainly not all battered stocks have spelled trouble for their venture investors. Jim Breyer, managing partner at Accel Partners in Palo Alto, Calif., says he made a 20-times return on the money he invested in NorthPoint Communications Group Inc., the San Francisco provider of high-speed Internet access that filed for bankruptcy-court protection in January. And Idealab Capital Partners, now called Clearstone Venture Partners, Pasadena, Calif., made hundreds of millions of dollars off of the $2.5 million it put into the now-defunct online-toy seller eToys Inc. "