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James Whorton Jr. (author of the novels APPROXIMATELY HEAVEN and FRANKLAND) explores memory and enduring love in "Flashes".

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` ` Our goal was to hang around and we were able to do that for a long time, '' Drake's Lindsay Whorton said.

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He then went to work at another VC, TPG, before 2006 when Whorton politely parted ways to found the much smaller Tugboat Ventures - doing a kind of start-up investing he calls Life Cycle Investing LCI.

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Although it is sometimes difficult to quantify the size of the potential market for a new product or service, Whorton and Toncheva knock out most of the candidates because they don't believe that the potential addressable market will eventually become big enough.

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Whorton believed the potential market would be much higher than the maximum $50 million that most of Silicon Valley's smart money told him when he invested.

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Dave Whorton has a near-perfect pedigree for Silicon Valley.

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But Whorton admits that this last test is the trickiest of the three to apply to investment candidates.

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But Whorton spurned Doerr to go work for Netscape - finally succumbing to Doerr's persistence in 1997.

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Gardeners and farmers were "raiding the stores for every can that shows its top above the counter," writes the medical historian James Whorton.

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Over the years, Whorton has gotten to know many entrepreneurs and executives that he respects.

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