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

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas. When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas. IS THERE ROOM FOR MORE LOCAL CAPITAL IN AUSTIN?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

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. Louis and now Texas. Photo Credit: Nauman Jaffar. I am happy that I was able to work with leading North American doctors and create Your Doctors Online.

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

Austin Startup

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). Since I first wrote about the Golden Age in 2014, valuations for tech companies have only increased?—?rather rather dramatically. People stepping down will constantly remind themselves where they are from.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously. SKMurphy » Common Questions about Advisory Boards - Jun 2, 2009 [.]