ADVISORY/Venture Capital Investment Reaches Record High.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 15, 2000 TOPIC: Despite recent reports about the slowdown For articles with similar titles, see Slow Down (disambiguation). A slowdown is an industrial action in which employees perform their duties but seek to reduce productivity or efficiency in their performance of these duties. of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. , venture capital investment reached an all-time high in the second quarter of 2000, said a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report by CNNfn.com, venture capital investment allegedly reached $19.6 billion, up more than $2 billion from the previous quarter. The survey also reportedly showed that more money has been given to start-ups in the first two quarters of 2000 than all of the money given to them in 1999. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Phil Samper, Managing Director of Gabriel Venture Partners, is an expert in venture capital and emerging technologies. 650/551-1100 PR: Victoria Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. Fortna (vfortna@smith-pr.com). Mr. Don Frankenfeld, President of FAI Incorporated (Frankenfeld.com), is an expert in Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the startups, economics and venture capital. 605/348-8441 donlfrank@frankenfeld.com Michael P. LaVigna, Investor/board member of IBT (1) (Instructor Based Training) Training courses conducted by human teachers. (2) (Internet Based Training) Training courses provided via the Internet. Technologies, is an expert in technology, the Internet and venture capital. 512/327-4899 x 138 PR: Cathy Wood (cathyw@ibt-technologies.com). ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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