Feel the love for onetime Valley investment mandarin Smilin' Frank Quattrone, as the San Jose Mercury News extracts numerous complimentary quotes from those eager to make a buck with the man and/or terrified of his potential return. With his many pals paving the way for an easy comeback, Quattrone is rumored to be planning a combination investment bank and private equity fund that may raise something like $3 to $5 billion. Somewhere in the gleeful chittering, you can almost hear that new bubble inflating.

Ask and ye shall receive. Below is the "Friends of Frank" list. (Much thanks.) But after taking a look, I realize that it's not what I really want. What I really want is a list of the venture capitalists that got "Friends of Frank" allocations. No VCs on that list.
[Name, Company, Position, Number of IPO allocations, Cost, First day value, Potential profit]
1. Robert and Pat Dahl Family Trust - Ascend Communications - CFO - 99 -$2,346,950 - $5,245,950 - $2,899,000
2. Morteza Ejabat Trust - Ascend Communications - CEO - 88 - $1,574,930 - $3,427,777 - $1,852,847
3. Zamani, Farhang and Ferialeh - Autoweb.com - Founder - 56 - $537,135 -$1,075,378 - $538,243
4. Zamani, Payam - Autoweb.com - Founder - 38 - $319,985 - $582,475 - $262,490
5. Johnson, Michael - CacheFlow - CFO - 53 - $957,925 $2,014,181 $1,056,256