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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (135450)	12/7/2001 9:12:07 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Bob, I thought ET was a movie. Hey, when I was in Mexico, I saw ET cash machines all over the place. >That's not to say VCs are abandoning software, Internet and telecommunication start-ups -- but the dot-com implosion has taught private investors that portfolio diversity does matter. And that means non-tech entrepreneurs have a better chance than ever to catch the ear of venture capital firms. Take, for instance, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venerable Silicon Valley firm that bankrolled Amazon.com, Blue Nile, drugstore.com and several other Internet companies during the late 1990s. It recently invested $38 million in Segway, maker of the motorized gyro-scooter widely known as "Ginger" or "It."