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TIE Houston Presents Entrepreneurship in Tough Times

Join us as we LiveBlog the TIE Houston event – Entrepreneurship in Tough Times. Some quick info:

It does not get any bigger than Kanwal Rekhi! Rekhi’s venture capital firm, Inventus Capital Partners has generated over $30 Billion in aggregate wealth and market value in their 15 year track record.

Rekhi is one of the biggest driving forces behind TiE, an 18-year old organization with chapters in 55 countries in five continents. He could easily be called the founding father of TiE.

“Rekhi is at the center of a lot of wealth creation.” – FORTUNE Magazine
“Kanwal has become a very important player (in Silicon Valley).” – Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google

Rekhi is a super entrepreneur. His telecom software company, Excelan, that he co-founded in 1982, was sold toNovell in 1989 for $210 million, and under his leadership grew to become the second largest software company in the world by 1994. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Novell. In 1987, Rekhi was namedEntrepreneur of the Year by the Arthur-Young/Venture magazine.

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