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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

Step Five: Have the humility and self-awareness to surround yourself with great mentors, from your angel investors, to your VC investors, to your Advisory Board, to your Board of Directors, and to your CEO or executive coach. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. Upon graduation with his MBA, Stephen was a Kauffman Fellow, a national Fellowship awarded to a select group of venture capitalists each year.

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Episode 36: Employee Incentives and Business Funding with Christine Gray and Jared Hecht

Mike Michalowicz

When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial health. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the Jurassic World movie. Our Guests. Christine Gray (left). Show Quotes