1.  Duffy, whose company is backed by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, immediately outbid five other prospective tenants and began renovations.

2.  Each backed six companies that went public in 1998.

3.  Fraine declined to say which venture capital firms had offered to back his company.

4.  He said venture capitalists who once threw their money into upstart Internet firms are now backing companies with new energy-saving technologies.

5.  Her firm also is doing deals again in the wireless arena, backing companies that make software applications for the growing realm of mobile equipment.

6.  Hundreds of women workers signed petitions supporting the company, and employees collected several thousand dollars from workers to take out newspaper ads backing the company.

7.  It expects to back companies that can survive on their own and fully repay the fund so the money can be recirculated to other deserving ventures.

8.  Instead, ComVentures is backing companies that are seeking to improve existing wireless technology.

9.  Investors were also advised to unhesitatingly back any company that former Cap Cities Chairman Thomas Murphy heads.

10.  Kleiner also backed both companies, and some say the VC played the role of matchmaker.