Investors can also turn to alternative funds, such as those offered by Rydex SGI.
Hartz first broke into Silicon Valley as a product manager at Silicon Graphics (SGI).
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He recalls Jim Clark as one example of someone who left SGI to start Netscape.
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The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Refreshingly, SGI says that so far is it not seeing any spending hesitation among its customer base.
While at SGI, he began to see first-hand the power of networks and the effect on entrepreneurialism.
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The SGI business is showing resiliency, despite macro-concerns, with strong quarter performance in U.S. Federal, Japan and Americas Commercial.
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After SGI, Hartz co-founded Connect Group, providing hotel guests with high-speed Internet access, that LodgeNet (LNET) acquired in 1998.
High-performance computing systems provider SGI this afternoon reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter ended September 30.
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After graduating, Senkut was determined to get to Silicon Valley and he joined SGI as a product manager for three years.
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After SGI, Hartz turned entrepreneur and co-founded Connect Group, providing hotel guests with high-speed Internet access, that LodgeNet (LNET) acquired in 1998.
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High-performance computing hardware vendor SGI this morning said that non-GAAP profits for its fiscal second quarter ended December 28 were better than expected.
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As he told me in a December 28th interview, the former high performance computing leader, SGI, gave Hartz a view into the future of personal computing.
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Jim Clark, who started Silicon Graphics (nyse: SGI - news - people ) and Healtheon and cofounded Netscape, was an extreme example of this type.
Anyway, SGI has been on something of a roll lately.
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Senkut recognized that ignoring this lesson had cost SGI dearly.
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The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
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