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Peter Rip is a venture capitalist with Leapfrog Ventures in San Francisco. He focuses exclusively on early stage technology companies. Before becoming a venture investor, Peter co-founded Silicon Compiler Systems, an IC design automation company acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1991. He began venture investing in 1992, backing several early stage companies acquired by AOL, Microsoft, HNC Software, and Infoseek. Peter earlier was the Managing Director of Knight Ridder Ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of Knight Ridder, Inc. Peter has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Brandeis University. Peter's blog can be accessed here: http://earlystagevc.typepad.com