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New VC Blog: Texas Venture Capitalist

Posted on April 19, 2008

I had the pleasure of meeting up with Aziz Gilani the other day at Peet’s Coffee in Evanston. Aziz and I ended up meeting each other through DFJ and our friends at IllinoisVENTURES. Aziz is currently a student at Kellogg who will be joining DFJ Mercury, our Houston, Texas based fund, as a summer associate in a couple months (although he is already spending a lot of time with the Mercury guys looking at deals and helping portfolio companies).

Aziz is a very smart guy especially when it comes to enterprise software. What I loved about our conversation was that we were able to teach each other a lot due to our complimentary skill sets (my main competency being consumer web and his being enterprise software). I hope to continue learning from Aziz over time and I hope I can help him learn a bit more about the consumer web as well.

Anyhow, I wanted to make sure all of you were aware of Aziz’ new blog titled simply Texas Venture Capitalist. I am sure he will have some great insights into new technologies, especially enterprise tech, so you should go ahead and subscribe now to ensure you don’t miss anything (no pressure Aziz!).

I am looking forward to working with Aziz and hopefully we’ll be able to put on a TECH cocktail down in the lone star state this summer.