Former Venture Capitalist Helps Prisoners Prepare for Business World

I went straight from graduating from the University of California at Berkeley right into venture-capital investing. I loved it. I made my short career in forcing deals. I was an aggressive and good deal originator. I would call up CEO's or find them wherever I could, and I was successful in turning a "no" into a "yes" when it came to investing in their companies. I was in Palo Alto, Calif., doing Silicon Valley investing for about three years, and then I went to New York, where I was for