The dating game
The road weariness showed on Rod Hosilyk’s face as he began his presentation to a panel of eight venture capitalists in Reno last week.
The talk by the chief executive officer of Reno’s Universal Combustion Technologies at the Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference came at the end of a three-week swing that had taken him to one venture capital conference after another across the United States.
His goal: raising $600,000 now and $7 million early next year to get the company that develops pollution-control devices for diesel equipment up and running.
By contrast, Chip Evans was the picture of freshness as he sought investors to put $5 million to $12 million into GreenDisk Technologies, a Reno-based developer of a new 
technology for computer hard disks. The presentation, Evans said later, marked the first appeal by the young company for venture funding. In fact, he said, its executives had put the final touches on their business plan only two weeks before he stood in front of the deep-pocketed investors scattered around the ballroom of the Siena Hotel. Read full story:
