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VCs Try To Get Down With Young CEOs. Today’s start-up founders need less cash and are choosier about their financiers.

Venture capitalist David Cowan is a professed chess-playing nerd who studied math and computer science at Harvard. Last year, though, he decided he needed a crash course in getting hip.

For the first time, the 40-year-old downloaded songs from Apple’s iTunes online-music store and put some games on his cellphone. He started writing an irreverent blog, called "Who has time for this?" with observations on everything from computer security to his dead cat. He urged readers to give their own felines "a little extra tuna" in memory of his departed pet, Snoopy. Finally, the suburban father of three ventured out to a few high-tech networking parties, including one packed with Stanford University students and beer kegs.

By REBECCA BUCKMAN
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal.

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