Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

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. This deal has been an unusual experience for me. The Road to AV.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin Ventures remained the dominant firm in Austin — and Texas — from the launch of its predecessor fund, Rust Ventures, in 1979 through 2015. link] But by 2015, it had become clear that Austin Ventures was unable to raise its eleventh fund and Fortune signaled its demise with an article entitled The Death of Austin Ventures.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

When I experienced the loss of a close relative due to misdiagnosis, I felt that there was a need to have a free, round-the-clock service, where people can chat with doctors. 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., Photo Credit: Nauman Jaffar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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. We proceeded to conduct a survey with current and previous clients using them as an advisory board for our re-naming plans.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015. Their success is about execution in sales, services, and feature parity … and then eventually superiority (again, due to that single platform to rapidly evolve on advantage). So here we go with the eighteenth lesson from The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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