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If you haven't already, be sure to check the latest Beltway Bootup column – or catch up on local tech news with previous columns. Or scroll down for a primer on issues surrounding the Tech Investor conference.
> Last year's conference, held in Loudoun County, was a place for regional companies to network and impress big-money investors. > Eight of the 10 best-performing Washington area IPOs in 1997 were tech companies. > The Washington area is a new player in the tech venture capital market. Read articles from various Post Co. publications on finding funding and networking. > Read Q&As with local experts for start-up advice, on preparing for this kind of an event, and on perfecting your elevator speech. > Thayer Capital Partners is the area's newest player in the big-money private investment business. > What's the philosophy behind investing in Internet enterprises? Read how Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and backer of America Online Inc., has been going about the business and how the angel game is played in California. > Out west in the 'hood of venture capital, an influx of money into the tech industry has changed tech talk. > MedImmune Inc., a small biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, was a presenter at last year's conference. It is now among the handful of U.S. biotech companies turning a profit. > Gene Logic Inc., a cutting-edge genetic research firm in Gaithersburg, recently announced plans to buy another local biotech company, Oncormed Inc. > Few people knew about Rockville-based EntreMed Inc. until the media called attention to two of its cancer drugs. > Catch up on news about the rest of the major players in Maryland's biotech industry. > Under the telecom big top, firms old and new are jockeying for position on the fiber-optic high wire. > Earlier this year the FCC held an auction of hundreds of the biggest chunks of radio spectrum ever sold. An analysis of the list of bidders showed that the discounts would mostly benefit wealthy venture capitalists – shutting out most of the small entrepreneurs – and the FCC denied a discount to Virginia Tech. > Alexandria-based Microdyne has made recent acquisitions to strengthen its communications technology base. > The recent successes of Ciena Corp. epitomizes the future of telecom in the Washington region. > The chairmen of MCI and WorldCom recently sat down with reporters from The Post to discuss their merger, money and plans for Washington. > Local companies consider the implications of AT&T's plan for one-wire communications following its announced merger with Tele-Communications Inc.
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