> So what's going on? Is it me just not paying attention? A bit of regionalism and a bit of not paying attention. They were getting going doing some local stuf

> So what's going on? Is it me just not paying attention? A bit of regionalism and a bit of not paying attention. They were getting going doing some local stuff (in Japan) in the early 90s when I lived there - much like ASCII was. And Sega, a bit, I guess, as they were trying to re-re-invent themselves. They came to America (SV) about the time I got back to America - they invested in yahoo.com, and Rob Glaser's real.com, and about 100 others. Not huge amounts or huge stakes by today's standards - but still significant. They never seemed to be quite as discriminating as some of the big-name VCs that you probably know, but 1995 (or so) through 1998 (or so) was a reasonably reasonable time to be spreading your bets across the entire table.