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

Austin Startup

Ironically, they’ll especially think this if they are working in a big company because they are more cautious about taking risks on “no-names”. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. 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.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

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