The Only Game in Town (In Austin Anyway)
Fund: Austin Ventures
Posted by Alexander Muse on 2007-05-04
In the late 90's I worked with Ed Olkkola, Venu Shamapant and Blaine Wesner. I really liked working with Ed specifically. AV provided a term sheet to fund our Series A, but the signature line included an addition to my title that I wasn't so excited about: "Interim" CEO
Now, I was only 28 years old and didn't have any business running the company, but that wasn't the point. In any event I ultimately accepted capital from a New York based fund that allowed me to run the company in the ground. I wrote about it here:
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