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Many take issue with how unnatural the Dancing Baby is. Anatole K. Kleiner '98 points out its deficiencies. "It makes [the baby] look disproportional. Babies are usually fatter and they have bigger heads." Caroline J. Choi, a Winthrop House resident tutor and student at Harvard Medical School, suggests why some may find it disturbing, explaining, "It's kind of robbing the baby's innocence--a real baby physically cannot move like that." Since dancing often has sexual connotations, many find the Dancing Baby almost pedophilic. As Wood notes, "It's sexualizing an infant...
Dunster House: Anna K. Blair, Slavic languages and literature; David O. M. Ellis, biochemical sciences; Jeremy D. Kleiner, history; Michael H. Walfish, computer science...
...stock issues don't just happen. They are produced by a complex web of relations among a company's founders, backers and investment bankers and involve extended periods of hard work, discipline and innovation. Venture-capital firms like Kleiner Perkins first lay out money to get promising companies up and running, and then take seats on their boards. The nurturing often lasts for years. Silicon Video Corp., a San Jose, California, maker of flat-panel video displays that plans to go public in the second half of this year, has got some $15 million from venture capitalists since 1991. "They...
...successful IPO can hit the jackpot not only for the start-up but for venture capitalists as well. Doerr and his Kleiner Perkins partners invested nearly $5 million in Netscape before it went public in return for stock now worth some $590 million. Some venture capitalists have even launched their own high-tech companies to ensure getting in on the gold rush. Kleiner Perkins joined forces with cable-TV giant TeleCommunications last year to create a firm called @Home; it plans to bring the Internet and its World Wide Web--along with programs like local news shows--to home computers...
...firm, which plans a test in Sunnyvale, California, later this year, Doerr tapped William Randolph Hearst III, grandson of the newspaper baron and a Kleiner Perkins partner. "Today it's too complex to hook up to the Internet to get a rich, full [sound and video] experience," Hearst said in launching @Home last November. He promised that the new system would be lightning fast and easy...