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October 17th, 2008

Any experienced entrepreneur or investor will tell you it is rare for the technology or the business to evolve according to plan. Management teams that have the passion, intelligence and teamwork to realize their vision will find way to evolve their technology and adapt their strategies, plans and organization to make it happen. Team second. Norm Wu Managing Director of Alameda Capital. Low power, organic silicon displays. Doug Jamison Vice President of Harris & Harris Group NN As things stand which nanotechnologies will you invest in in and 2006?

Select quotes NN Overall, what do you like about nano as an investment area? like the opportunity to invest in the research coming out of few of the premier research labs in the country in an emerging area of science that often provides for broad intellectual property coverage before too much capital chasing too few deals has led to capital market myopia. Technology, Market SizingChannelsPenetration, Ability to scale from proto to product, ability to recruit quality investors, etc.

Management teams that have the passion, intelligence and teamwork to realize their vision will find way to evolve their technology and adapt their strategies, plans and organization to make it happen. Yet there are many areas where nanotechnology is producing revenues or will be in the short term. For we will invest where the best opportunities present themselves. Pearl Chin in the next in her monthly series contributes an article titled Nanotech Environmental Activist Shenanigans. We believe both skill sets are critical for investing in earlystage tiny technology companies.

Technology, Market SizingChannelsPenetration, Ability to scale from proto to product, ability to recruit quality investors, etc. However, as the area of nanotechnology matures, believe you can look for our portfolio to evolve towards more integrated nanotechnology solutions. Norm Wu Managing Director of Alameda CapitalNN Overall, what do you like about nano as an investment area?

Just as in the early days of biotechnology, the quality of people is astounding, and spend of my days being the dumbest person in the room, which means am always learning something NN Which specific nanotechnologies will you invest in in and 2006? We consider ourselves opportunistic, bottomup investors. NN In your opinion, what is the single important factor in investing? Entrepreneur? Team? Technology? Market? Investors? Other? Entrepreneur first either capable of building company or willing to hire management who is.