Chris Shorb notes that Eric Vincent seem to be at Starting Point Venture Partners in New York City. The web site blurb reports that:

Eric has more than nine years of legal and private equity experience. Most recently, Eric was a partner with Omega Advisors, Inc., a multi-billion dollar New York-based hedge fund, where he managed the firm’s emerging market investments. Prior to joining Omega, Eric spent the previous four years investing in, starting up and managing businesses in various Eastern European countries. Eric specifically co-headed Winslow Partners s.r.o., an investment firm founded with a former Goldman Sachs partner that made private equity investments in the Czech Republic. From 1991 to 1993, Eric was an attorney at the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Eric received a B.A. from Williams College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He serves on the board of Sand Cherry Networks, Inc. and is an observer on the boards of Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. and ShipLogix, Inc.

My best googling couldn’t provide much else on Eric’s activities. He is quoted as noting that,

“The biggest challenge for early-stage venture capitalists our size is the financing risk going forward,” said Eric Vincent, partner at StartingPoint Venture Partners LLC, which has $26 million under management. His peers echoed his concern over running out of capital to support their companies.

StartingPoint was formed in January 2000. Although the year 2000 bug had saefly passed by this date, early 2000 was a . . . uh . . . challenging time to start in the venture capital business. If Eric is out there, I hope that he will provide an update.

I am pretty sure that this link refers to Eric, but, alas, my Czech is a little rusty.

No news on whether Gary Hart’s recent flirtation with a presidential run in 2004 is pulling Eric back into politics. Those with long memories will recall that Eric played a non-trivial part in Hart’s canidacy the last time around.

Eric and I were the only sophomores in James MacGregor Burns’ last class at Williams, back in the fall of 1985, held in one of those small seminar rooms at the top of Stetson. If my notes are correct, Eric’s project for the class of focussed on “neo-liberalism and the possibility of an ideas based coaltion.” I still remember Burns noting one day that, 50 years previously, he had been a student at Williams (back in 1935) and was lectured to by a famour professor of that error. He couldn’t believe that the 50 years had gone by so quickly.I always promised myself that, come the fall of 2035, I would somehow find a way to be lecturing at Williams so that I could tell the students that story.