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

Austin Startup

If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having You are really going to need them.

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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. He is a partner at Capital Factory and a board member of the Austin Technology Council.