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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. I was on CNN, who taped live from the event.