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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

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I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. It got me thinking about the tech industry. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule. A few years ago I headed out to China for a few weeks on a tech tour.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here. No Dave S. =

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Know Your Goal And Know Your Role: Connecting The Dots To Success

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First dots can be anything from writing a business plan to taking a coding course to brainstorming ideas. Review & Realign. This review schedule serves two purposes. Secondly, the review gives you a chance to realign your next dots as life changes. That is your first dot. Connect with People.

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Oops, My Bad!: Five Ways Your Business Can Improve By Admitting To Mistakes

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That’s why Barefoot made sure employees weren’t afraid to make or report mistakes (those involving technical errors, that is — bad behavior or an inability to perform should not be overlooked). Then we would brainstorm what went wrong and make technical adjustments. Basically, our approach to mistakes was to say, ‘Congratulations!