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Acteva, The Marketplace For Activities
www.acteva.com
1550 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-442-4849
Fax 415-243-4095

National Sales Manager
Bob Boehmer
415-442-4849 x313
bob@acteva.com
Director of Marketing
Ed Klar
415-442-4849 x335
eklar@acteva.com
Director of Human Resources
Janet Jordan
415-442-4849 x322
janet@acteva.com

Acteva is The Web's Marketplace For Activities. Acteva, formerly TixToGo, uses the power of the Web to help organizations and individuals reach millions of people who will register, buy tickets, donate or sign-up for activities. We increase the activity community's marketing presence while reducing its administrative load.

Administaff
www.administaff.com
1825 S. Grant Street, Ste. 600
San Mateo, CA 94402
650-357-9930
650-357-7542 (fax)

District Manager
Gregory Morton
650-357-9930
650-357-7542 (fax)
Gregory_Morton@Administaff.com
District Manager
Tom Mangini
650-357-9930
650-357-7542 (fax)
Tom_Mangini@Administaff.com

Administaff is one of the nation's leading Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), serving as an off-site, full-service human resources department for small businesses throughout the United States. Administaff's Personnel Management System provides business services that include benefit management, government compliance, employment administration, employer liability management, recruiting and selection, performance management, training and development, and owner support.

Administaff is one of the nation's leading Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), serving as an off-site, full-service human resources department for small businesses throughout the United States.

beenz.com
www.beenz.com
1160 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-409-2931
fax 415-409-0943
usa@beenz.com

Business Development
Michael Weiner
michael.weiner@beenz.com
Sales
Mitch Faigen
mitch.faigen@beenz.com
Human Resources
Lalitta Ghandikota
lalitta.ghandikota@beenz.com

beenz are a universal web currency that consumers earn by visiting, interacting with and/or shopping at web sites. Consumers can spend their beenz on DVDs, CDs, vacations, books, downloadable music, clothing and thousands of other products on the Web. For information, or to open a beenz account, please visit www.beenz.com.

Britton Silberman & Cervantez LLP
www.brittonlaw.com
461 Second Street, Suite 332
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-538-9000
415-538-9001 (fax)
info@brittonlaw.com

Partner
Brent C. J. Britton
415-538-9000
brent@brittonlaw.com
Partner
Gil G. Silberman
415-538-9000
gil@brittonlaw.com
Partner
Thomas J. Cervantez
415-538-9000
tom@brittonlaw.com

From its home office in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, Britton Silberman & Cervantez LLP serves companies throughout California, New York, and the world in venture funding, corporate, licensing, and intellectual property matters. Our eight attorneys represent more than two hundred emerging and established concerns in the field of software, hardware, entertainment, electronic commerce, web design, online access, content, audio distribution, professional services, finance, and product distribution. The firm's mission is to enable today's new start-up technology companies to become tomorrow's industry giants.

Business Radio 1220 KBZS
http://www.kbzs.com
1500 Sansome Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-434-1220
fax 415-434-1280
info@businessradio1220.com

Advertising: General Manager
Charles Andrew Whatley
415.277.1722 ext. 23
andy.whatley@businessradio1220.com

Business All Morning - Success All Day

Business Radio 1220...the Bay Area's radio station dedicated to business, technology and financial news and information. Business Radio 1220 delivers up-to-the-minute reports with information partners like CNN, Associated Press, CBS Marketwatch.com, Forbes ASAP, Dow Jones Report and our local staff keeping tabs on all that is happening around the bay. Plus...we don't miss a beat in the technology news arena with Cotelligent's Techwatch with Skip Sanzeri. When the market closes we switch gears to our unique and innovative personal achievement programming with top authors like Harvey Mackay, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Jay Abraham and many more.

The Business Times
www.amcity.com/sanfrancisco
275 Battery St., Suite 940
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-989-2522
415-398-2494 (fax)

Publisher
Mary Huss
mhuss@amcity.com
Director of Advertising
Donna Sangwin
415-288-4935
dsangwin@amcity.com

The Business Times covers the five-county Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties), while its sister paper in San Jose covers Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

Readership chiefly consists of high income, successful business owners and senior managers who are decision-makers and are active in their communities. Indeed, according to proprietary research, readers of American City's newspapers have demographic features that are superior to those of most national business publications.

American City Business Journals Inc. is the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, serving 41 of the country's most vibrant markets.

Downtown Magazine
www.sfdowntown.com
1550 California St., Suite 4L
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-362-6641
fax 415-362-2254
editor@sfdowntown.com

Publisher
Gordon Reynolds
gordon@sfdowntown.com

Serving the Financial Retail and SOMA Districts of Metro San Francisco

San Francisco Downtown, a free monthly business/lifestyle magazine for people who work and/or live in the Downtown area, visitors to San Francisco Downtown and the advertisers seeking to reach them. San Francisco Downtown circulates 35,000 copies through hundreds of outlets in the Financial District, South of Market, Retail and Civic Center Districts of the City reaching an audience of over 77,000 readers. We are now extending our reach through the World Wide Web.

Extreme Pizza
www.extremepizza.com

FamilyBeat.com
www.familybeat.com
760 Market Street Suite 833
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone (415) 984-0745
Fax (415) 723-7310
help@familybeat.com

FamilyBeat.com provides families with their own free, private website where they can share messages, photos and recipes as well as participate in private chat sessions and plan events on a family calendar! FamilyBeat.com picks up where e-mail leaves off by creating the family's online home away from home. Get your family connected today.

Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com
77 North Washington Street
Boston, MA 02114-1927
617-973-0300

VP, Western Ad Director
Dudley F. Wing Jr.
415-392-8593

Founding Editors William Taylor and Alan Webber started this magazine with two fundamental propositions: there is a new world of business evolving, and there is a community committed to new ways of working, competing, living and growing. The magazine writes about the new economy and workplace for people who believe in fusing tough-minded performance with sane human values. We give you real tools to solve real problems. Over the past two years, that vision has evolved into a movement. We've heard from fans who swear to read each issue cover-to-cover. We've introduced readers to models and mentors from fast companies all over the world. And we've launched the debate about work and life in the new economy. And starting in August, we're going monthly.

Hornstein Law Offices
www.hornsteinlaw.com
P.O. Box 151602
1108 Tamalpais Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94915
415-454-1490
Fax 415-454-5294
Hornstein@aol.com

Today's business demands innovative and individualized legal support which is both responsive and cost effective. Hornstein Law Offices combines state of the art technical legal counsel with old fashioned client service and satisfaction.

ICONOCAST Inc.
www.iconocast.com
470 Third St. #102
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-778-0800
415-778-0808 fax

President, CEO
Michael Tchong
415-778-0804
michael@iconocast.com
Sponsor Sales Director
Kathy Kottenbach
415-778-0803
kathy@iconocast.com
Marketing Director
Greg Ogarrio
415-778-0805
greg@iconocast.com

A free, weekly e-mail list founded by award-winning publisher Michael Tchong in 1997 for marketing, advertising and research professionals, ICONOCAST concisely chronicles the trends, metrics and rumors driving interactive marketing at Internet speed. Web Attack!, The Ultimate Internet Marketing Event, is headed for Broadway June 8-9, 2000, Roseland… and industry conferences will never be the same.

Web Attack! 2000 "The Internet Goes to Broadway"
www.iconocast.com/webattack/

The Industry Standard
www.thestandard.com
315 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-733-5400

The Industry Standard is the single source for timely, thought provoking information about the Internet Economy. Written for senior-level executives who view the Internet as competitive tool, The Industry Standard delivers sophisticated coverage of the people, the companies, and the business models shaping our new business world. With insightful news analysis, business model reviews, personality profiles, industry metrics and executive recruiting, every week The Industry Standard is everything today's Internet business leader needs to make decisions faster, smarter ... better.

internet.com Corporation
www.internet.com
23 Old Kings Highway
Darien, CT 06820
203-662-2962
Fax 203-655-4686
adsales@internet.com

Western Associate Publisher
Scott Bialous
650-347-7500 x109
sbialous@internet.com

The internet.com Network allows you to target the Internet audience you're looking for a hi-tech community of Internet industry professionals, developers, and Web managers. The Network's Internet specific content assures that your ad dollars are well spent. With 92 award-winning Web sites, 71 e-mail newsletters, 101 online discussion forums, and 75 moderated e-mail discussion lists advertisers can be sure that they can target their marketing message to their desired audience.

i-Step Communications
www.istep.com
i-Step Communications
5214F Diamond Hts. Blvd.,
Suite 436
San Francisco
415-566-9204
415-759-6686 (fax)
sales@istep.com

ISP & WAN services
Chris Wong
415-566-9204
cjwong@istep.com

i-Step Communications started doing web site design back in 1995 and has since evolved into a full service company offering a range of services from LAN-WAN design and implementation to a complete line of internet services such as DSL, nationwide modem dialup, co-location, as well as web site design and hosting. We pride ourselves in providing close personal attention to our customers.

MDG.org
(the interactive media trade association)

www.mdg.org
520 Third Street Suite 257
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-512-3556
415-512-3569 (fax)

Managing Director
Leslie Mattison
415-512-3556
lesliem@mdg.org

MDG.org is a non-profit market and business development trade association serving interactive media companies nationally and internationally. MDG.org's mission is to connect its member companies with prospective partners through networking and promotion opportunites and to provide access to a broad range of industry and business development issues. MDG.org also cultivates relationships with local, national, and international business associations and governmental entities, expanding members' business opportunities in the United States and abroad.

Microsoft Corporation
Silicon Valley Internet Solutions Center

1250 Charleston Road
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-693-8551
Fax 650-693-8557
svisc@microsoft.com

Business Development Manager
John Fernandes
Microsoft Corporation
415-547-4349
johnfe@microsoft.com

The Microsoft Silicon Valley Internet Solutions Center is designed to help companies realize the potential of the digital economy by integrating eBusiness solutions throughout their operations. This new state-of-the-art facility is the place for developers, entrepreneurs and high-tech business people to get information and resources they need to be successful in building eBusiness solutions.

MicroTimes Magazine
www.microtimes.com
1300 Clay Street, Suite 820
Oakland, CA 94612
510-768-1200
fax 510-768-1288
mtnorth@microtimes.com

Publisher
Phillip Anderson
510-768-1200
panderson@microtimes.com
Advertising
Les Heizler
510-768-1200
lheizler@microtimes.com

MicroTimes is the must-have resource for anyone looking for the latest in computer products and industry trends. Regular editorial sections include Industry, E-Commerce, Web Applications, Networking, Mobile Computing, Systems, Tech Careers and Home Entertainment. Additionally, MicroTimes is a prominent medium for both readership and advertising of Computer Resellers, VARs, System Integrators and Consultants. 222,000 copies are distributed 14 times a year throughout the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties, Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

NBCi
www.nbci.com
225 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-375-5000

General Manager, Recruiting Services
Bill Jennings
415-375-5623
billj@nbci.com
Lead Recruiting Coordinator
Carmel Adkisson
415-375-5870

NBC Internet, Inc. (NBCi), a branded global integrated media company, commenced operations in November 1999. NBCi integrates major media platforms, including Internet, broadcast and cable television and radio, to deliver powerful ways for partners to connect with users and customers. NBCi's flagship consumer Web site, Snap (www.snap.com), provides a comprehensive online experience to users worldwide via Internet search & directory, community, shopping, e-commerce, multimedia and entertainment services across all bandwidths. NBCi was created through the combination of Snap, XOOM.com, NBC.com, NBC Interactive Neighborhood, AccessHollywood.com, VideoSeeker and a 10 percent equity stake in CNBC.com. NBC Internet publicly trades under the ticker NBCI on The Nasdaq Stock Market ®. NBC holds a 47.3 percent ownership stake in NBCi and brings to the venture the storied heritage of 70 years of branded media and technology innovations. NBCi is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Paris, France. For more information about NBCi and its constituent Internet services, please see the NBCi corporate Web site at www.nbci.com.

Network Appliance
www.netapp.com
495 East Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-822-6000
fax 408-822-4501

Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992. NetApp® Internet caching solutions (NetCache™ appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast, simple, reliable, cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX®, Windows NT® and the World Wide Web.

Nomad Design and Services, Ltd.
www.nomaddesign.com
246 1st St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-339-8619
415-357-0804 (fax)
hari@nomaddesign.com

Nomad Design specializes in innovative design and printing with customers ranging from entertainment to advertisers to high tech industries. Nomad recently acquired the capacity to print in house with a Heidlberg DI. We specialized in quick turn 4 color printing.

Now We're Cooking!
www.nowcook.com
Now We're Cooking!
2150 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-255-6355
415-255-6377 fax

Director of Sales and Marketing
Bev Shelby
415-255-6355 x204
bevshelby@nowcook.com
President
Lawrence Whitting
415-255-6355 x201
LW@nowcook.com

Fine Catering - Event Production - Consulting

From elegant corporate dinners to whimsical theme events to magical weddings, Now We're Cooking! has created a solid reputation for our fine cuisine, gorgeous, innovative presentation, attention to every detail and our boundless energy, creativity and commitment. In addition to our full service catering and event planning, Now We're Cooking! is also the exclusive caterer for the Wattis Room, the major benefactors' private dining room at Davies Symphony Hall. And our new restaurant, Disegno!, in the San Francisco Design Center Galleria, is getting rave reviews.

PERCEPTICON Corporation
www.percepticon.com
1862 Union Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-749-2900
415-749-2901 (fax)
contact@percepticon.com

President / Creative Director
J. Patrick Forden
415-749-2900
forden@percepticon.com
Marketing Director
Kelley Forden
415-749-2900
kelley@percepticon.com

The PERCEPTICON commitment to design excellence and artistic vision extends to each project we undertake. With years of diverse experience, our team is skilled in the creation, implementation and hosting of strategic website, web application and print solutions. PERCEPTICON's refined development process provides a successful integration of high-end Internet technologies with innovative concepts, compelling design and intuitive information architecture. Experience our recent work at http://www.percepticon.com/root.html?recent.

Personify, Inc.
www.personify.com
425 Battery Street, Suite 450B
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-782-2050
fax: 415-544-0318
info@personify.com

Director of Corporate Marketing
R "Ray" Wang
415-268-8360
rwang@personify.com
Employment Manager
Charina Garcia
415-268-5661
cgarcia@personify.com

Personify is a leading e-business software company focused on increasing growth and profitability for a large number of leading dot-com and Global 2000 companies at every stage of their evolution. By providing innovative software that reveals patterns of visitor behavior and e-business expertise to act on those patterns, Personify helps companies become more personable and profitable.

Premium Network
www.premiumnetwork.com
140 Second Street, Suite 602
San Francisco, California 94105
415-284-1444
415-284-1482 (fax)
info@premiumnetwork.com

President
Ken Margolis
415-284-1444
info@premiumnetwork.com

The Premium Network is a network of web sites that provides for strategic ad banner placement, rich media sponsorships, and effective contests and promotions. The network is hosted by Ken Margolis Associates and was established to bring on-line advertising capabilities to a higher level. Ken Margolis Associates is an advertising rep and marketing consulting firm, specializing in selling Internet advertising. KMA provides its customers with a full range of services, including advertising representation, ad banner serving, account management and client billing.

Release 1.0
EDventure Holdings Inc.

www.edventure.com/ release1/release1.html
104 Fifth Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212.924.8800
fax 212.924.0240
us@edventure.com

Joanna Douglas
joanna@edventure.com

Release 1.0, a monthly report published by Edventure Holdings, is "must reading" for the executives, analysts, entrepreneurs and financial professionals who really make a difference in the converging worlds of communications, computing, media and the Internet. For nearly 20 years our readers have depended on Release 1.0 for totally independent insight into the tectonic shifts in the business of technology - what's going to change the world and who's going to make it happen.

SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN CENTER
www.sfdesigncenter.com
2 Henry Adams Street, Suite 450
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-490-5861
415-490-5885 fax
kk@sfdesigncenter.com

Director of Sales, Special Events
Kathleen A. Kirkpatrick

Two of the premier event facilities in the Bay Area are located South of Market in the Design Center. The Galleria, at 101 Henry Adams Street, and the Concourse Exhibition Center, at 635 8th Street (@Brannan.) The GALLERIA is a breath-taking 4-story atrium with retractable skylights, professional stage, 1,200 square foot dance floor, and in-house professional sound and lighting. This venue is ideal for corporate receptions (up to 1600), gala dinners (up to 1000 seated), presentations (seating 400+ on main floor), weddings and private events. The CONCOURSE is a 125,000 square foot contemporary glass and steel pav ilion with sandblasted wood, wall-to-wall carpeting and sparkling glass. This historic facility (originally a train station) can be divided into 2 independent exhibit areas, and is a popular location for large corporate events, fairs, dances, and conventions.

SF Gate
www.sfgate.com
1001 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-561-8700
415-674-7338 (fax)
support@sfgate.com

Serving over 15 million page views per month, SF Gate is, by far, the most popular site focusing on the Bay Area. Founded in 1994, SF Gate was the first major Website dedicated to reflecting the spirit of the region through news, information, communication, and commerce. SF Gate is the Bay Area's #1 content site as ranked by Media Metrix. Over 60% of SF Gate users visit the site at least once a day. SF Gate is the essential online choice for the Bay Area.

Silicon Valley Bank
www.svb.com
3003 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-654-7400

The founders of Silicon Valley Bank set out in 1983 to capture a growing market in Northern California, which until that time had been greatly underserved by commercial banks -- emerging growth technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Many companies in this unique market were just getting started and had yet to realize a profit; some simply were not yet considered "creditworthy" by local community or regional banks.

Silicon Valley Tours
www.siliconvalleytours.com
54 Fourth Street Suite 511
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-902-3921
415-495-7653 (fax)

Director
Tom McDonagh
415-902-3921
fourmc@aslan.com

Designed for groups of professionals, Silicon Valley Tours offers informative and stimulating tours of Silicon Valley, San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch, clusters of high-technology and other innovative business environments. Group tours can be arranged to complement conventions, conferences and meetings with local companies. Let us custom tailor to the interest of participants and sponsoring companies. Companies hosting visitors for purposes such a sales team building or customer relations will find tours enhance experiences for visitors.

TAL Digital Solutions
www.talmacs.com
33 Vincente Street
(West Portal & Portola)
San Francisco, CA 94127
415-504-8911
talorange@aol.com

Founded in 1990 by Steve Trubow, a multimedia trainer & developer/ author of educational books and cdroms, TAL has been one of the leading authorized Apple vars specializing in system design and integration for Mac professionals. TAL is authorized to provide value added solutions by Apple, IBM, Media 100, HP, Seagate, LinoColor, Agfa, Sony, Kingston, Atto, Adaptec,Tektronix and more ...

Verio Inc
www.verio.net
401 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-836-0500

Director of Sales
Bob Bailey
bbailey@verio.net
Field Marketing Manager
Kevin Engman
15400 SE 30th Place Suite 202
Bellevue, WA 98007
kengman@verio.net

Verio Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive business Internet services -- including broadband connectivity, virtual private networks, Web-hosting solutions and e-commerce with an emphasis on serving the small and mid-sized business market. Verio has rapidly established a global presence through the acquisition, integration and growth of independent Internet providers with a business customer focus. Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable national infrastructure and systems including a facilities-based Tier One national network. Verio delivers locally-based sales and engineering support in 41 of the top 50 U.S. markets under the Verio brand name.

Vision Inc.
www.visioninc.com
1105 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-956-5500
fax 415-956-5533
info@visioninc.com

Director, Business Development
Michael Blum
415-956-5500 ext. 204
michaelb@visioninc.com
Marketing Manager
Jerome Ryan
415-956-5500 ext. 205
jerome@visioninc.com

Vision Inc. The eBusiness Engine Company. The success of a Web site Depends on a number of things: strategy, marketing, timing, and other variables. Yet the one constant that any Web site relies upon is its underlying technology. Vision Inc.'s sole focus is the development of software applications, based on Web technology that accomplishes the business demands of our clients. With offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C. and Frankfurt, Germany, we support the needs of our worldwide clients from early stage start-ups to large Global 2000 corporations. Our mission? To know how Web technology can further your business and provide a profitable Internet solution.