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...five bucks, it seems like a good deal, considering how expensive Harvard Square places are,” said Maria E. Barth...
...during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your applause until it's for me." Now, we know that the real Steve Martin, whoever that may be, is an art collector and New Yorker humorist. So after Billy Crystal's wisenheimer tumling and Whoopi Goldberg's japes à la Belle Barth, Martin was meant to class the proceedings up a bit. And so he did. He turned Oscar Night into a party he might not mind attending. We give him a B plus for the monologue and an A for apparent effortlessness...
...While the VCs may not necessarily be investing less, the patterns of those investments have changed. According to Liz Barth, director of research at Deals In Europe Plus, a data service from Tornado-Insider.com, VCs invested $140 million more in software and technology companies in January than they did in the previous month but about $116 million less in Internet companies. When it comes to the firms still in their portfolios, VCs are demanding tighter cash management and better results. And when it's clear that one of their charges isn't likely to pull through, the backers are simply pulling...
...Barth's software, which must be downloaded to a PC's Internet Explorer browser, searches airline, car and hotel websites to find exclusive low fares. (Mac and Netscape versions are in the works.) An Internet plug-in allows bargain hunters to view Sidestep's search results and competitors' side by side...
This being 2001, no net startup is guaranteed. Already, one promising travel site, Savvio, has closed. But Sidestep has money and momentum, and it is adding to the 28 airlines now signed up. In any event, Barth figures he can point his new search engine at other industries. Perhaps all he needs now is to bump into another M.I.T. friend to tell him which...