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...bank has the deep pockets to fund expansion. Its initial $24.75 million stock offering was vastly oversubscribed. No wonder: funding green startups has become as popular in Silicon Valley as luxury SUVs, so New Resource has inside investors like Bob Hambrecht, managing director of WR Hambrecht & Co.; Daniel Yohannes, U.S. Bank's former vice chairman; and the founders of Sybase and Lotus Development...
...manager, Burr has a penchant for delivering sermons to his flock on how to do a better job. He zealously believes that his populist, everybody-is-important organization can make a better world, or at least a better kind of capitalism. Says William Hambrecht, a San Francisco financier whose firm helped Burr raise $24 million to start the company: "Don Burr is really operating from a philosophical base, rather than a financial one. Monetary success is almost incidental. He's after much more than that...
...bigger, with less competition, is better. Although a combined Oracle-PeopleSoft would not rival SAP's user base, it would be in a more competitive position--and create an ever wider market for Oracle Database. "[Ellison] doesn't need PeopleSoft's products," says Reg King, an analyst for WR Hambrecht & Co. "But what's wrong with buying its customers...
...Perignon ($80) may also pick up a pair of Waterford goblets for $60. Exploiting such buying patterns has helped Costco to push its average checkout ticket to $109, compared with $60 to $80 at competing warehouse clubs, according to Bill Dreher, a senior retail analyst at W.R. Hambrecht...
DIED. DANIEL CASE III, 44, who, as head of the high-tech banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, and later chairman of J.P. Morgan HQ, helped fuel the Internet explosion of the '90s; of brain cancer; in San Francisco. Case, brother of AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, financed such Silicon Valley pioneers as Apple Computer, Adobe Software and Netscape Communications...