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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (136851)	1/10/2002 11:18:04 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164685

Glenn, don't think Kleiner Perkins is perfect. I bought Chemdex (now Ventro Vntr) on its IPO and dumped it not long after. That was when I was know as the B2B IPO burger flipper. Oh! another Kleiner baby...CLIC. I made a bundle on that one too. Its assets were just bought for 1c on the dollar. >>New York, New York, Dec 14, 2001 (Market News Publishing via COMTEX) -- Calico Commerce, Inc., announced that it has reached an agreement with PeopleSoft, Inc., the leading provider of collaborative enterprise software, whereby PeopleSoft intends to acquire the intellectual property and certain assets of Calico Commerce for approximately $5M in cash. As part of the agreement, Calico Commerce will file a voluntary under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and obtain Bankruptcy Court approval of the<< >>Accompanying them down the slippery slope to the current 39-cent share price were Ventro's main venture-capital backers, the blue-chip Warburg Pincus and the king of dot-com capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. At Ventro's July 1999 initial public offering of $15 per share, each owned 9.6% of the company, bought at an average of $2.04. In what has to be one of the great unsung bubble blunders, neither firm has ever sold a single share. forbes.com

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (136851)	1/10/2002 11:33:48 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164685

>>LONDON--Online auction firm eBay is considering what to do with its Japanese operations, including selling them, forming a joint venture or making an acquisition to increase its scale in Japan, where rival Yahoo dominates, the Financial Times reported Friday.<< news.cnet.com