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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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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.