Re: New Venture Funds

Mike Masnick (mike@techdirt.com)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:18:59 -0800


At 11:36 AM 12/31/99 -0800, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:
>New KPC&B venture to do "something incredibly special":
> Venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers appears to
> be quietly recruiting Internet-seasoned veterans for
a stealth venture
> called FireDrop. "FireDrop is in 'stealth' mode
because we're doing
> something incredibly special, and we're not quite
ready to tell the
> world about it," reads a statement on the site, which
also claims
> Kleiner Perkins as a backer.

The rumor on this one is that it's just another "event management" service
like Evite.com, TimeDance, Mambo, eParties or SeeUThere.com (just bought by
MP3.com).

-Mike