ADVISORY/First Tuesday Makes Its Debut in Chicago; World's Largest Internet Networking Forum Set for April 4, 2000.

Assignment Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (April 4)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHO:        Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski, founder of divine
            interVentures Inc. will discuss the future of e-commerce
            in Chicago at the first ever U.S. event of First Tuesday.

WHAT:       First Tuesday is an Internet networking event
            focused on connecting the e-entrepreneurs with
            inventors and service providers. The goal of the
            event is to connect local and Midwest Internet
            entrepreneurs, equity investors and service
            providers.

WHEN &
WHERE       Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 6 PM to 8:30 PM (CST), at Drink,
            located at 702 W. Fulton, Chicago.
            For more information, please visit the First Tuesday web
            site at: http://www.firsttuesday.com.

WHY:        With a quickly growing e-Business market, Chicago is
            strategically positioned to be the next Internet
            power-city, and First Tuesday coupling a ripe market with
            key players can make it happen.  "The Internet community
            felt there was a lack of communication about what was
            going on and about access to services, employees and
            financing in Chicago," says David Jacobson, partner and
            principal of the E-Business practice group at Sonnenschein
            Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago, who is sponsoring the event.
            "First Tuesday is here to solve that problem." From its
            inception at a London pub on the first Tuesday of October
            1998, First Tuesday has grown to include more than
            40,000 Internet entrepreneurs, financiers and others, who
            meet in more than 40 cities, spanning 5 continents.

HOW:        Sponsors and organizers of the event include: divine
            interVentures Inc. (presenting sponsor); Sonnenschein Nath
            & Rosenthal; Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of
            Management; The Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors;
            Diamond Technology Partners; Norman Broadbent
            International; the Round Table Group; Andersen Consulting;
            Lucent Technologies; and bidforreal.com.


MEDIA:      MEMBERS OF THE PRESS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.  Community
            demand is triple what was expected and space is limited.
            Please contact John Hellerman (312/787-9770 or
            [e-mail]) for more information, to arrange
            interviews of key participants and/or to confirm your
            attendance at the event.