Veteran venture capitalist C. Richard Kramlich is one of the last people you would expect to be sinking money into a new consumer dot-com. The man who backed such communications equipment highfliers as Ascend Communications Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. has stated openly that venture investments over the past three years in e-tailers and other consumer offerings have been largely faddish and lacking in business fundamentals. In fact, Kramlich, the founding partner of New Enterprise Associates, vowed to stay out of the retail sector forever after a spate of disappointing investments his firm made some 20 years ago.
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机译：资深的风险投资家C.理查德·克拉姆里奇（C. Richard Kramlich）是您可能期望将钱花在新的消费者网络公司中的最后一批人。支持Ascend Communications Inc.和Juniper Networks Inc.这样的通信设备高手的人公开表示，过去三年来对电子零售商和其他消费者产品的风险投资一直很流行，并且缺乏业务基础。实际上，新企业协会（New Enterprise Associates）的创始合伙人克拉姆里奇（Krammlich）誓言要在20年前对该公司进行的一系列令人失望的投资后永远退出零售行业。
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