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Accelerating Aurora, Driving the Future

Reid Hoffman

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. The Road to AV. Uber is the world’s largest ride-hailing network.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate As Bill Gross spoke about at 2015’s TED conference, market timing is the single biggest factor for startup success (a worthy watch). And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015. But Bazaarvoice actually has a working network effect that benefits all participants: retailers, brands that sell through those retailers, consumers that shop at those brands and retailers, and Bazaarvoice and some of its partners.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I became a full-time entrepreneur in 2015 and since then, I was able to immigrate from Europe to Canada, obtain a visa for the U.S., However, my number one love about being an entrepreneur is the ability to control my own income. have lived in Prince Edward Island, New York, St. Louis and now Texas.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

11-Suggested by my partner’s husband. but then my partner’s husband piped up, The Renegade Writer. We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. Thanks to David Batchelor, DialMyCalls ! #11-Suggested

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Check Your Entrepreneurial DNA Before You Start Up

Startup Professionals Musings

So it behooves every aspiring entrepreneur to understand their own DNA before picking a project to bet their life on, and to facilitate effective communication with all constituents, including partners, investors, team members and customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/10/2015.