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TiE’s first annual report was published in 1996.

Philosophical framework was wordsmithed by Suhas Patil, Roy Prasad​ and yours truly over a bottle of wine at Suhas’s house.

It took several revisions and precise wordsmithing to get it right!

It was not called TiEcon back in 1994. That name did not come about till 1997. But the very first public TiE conference was held on March 26-27 at The Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. Initial thought was maybe 100 to 200 people may come – 500 had signed up by the time conference happened.

In 2002, I was made an honorary citizen of Houston by the mayor and given a key to the city during my visit to launch their TiE chapter.

I also spoke at Rice university on entrepreneurship and the Q&A lasted more than two hours.