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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Irony, hey?).

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

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The godfather of the crowdsourcing movement, Jeff coined the term in a 2006 article for Wired magazine and remains one of the leading experts in the field, having literally written the book ( Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business ) on the subject.

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Sachin Bansal, Flipkart Co-founder appointed as Managing Director of Venture Navi Technologies

Our Own Start-up

Sachin Bansal has made several investments into companies and start-ups such as Altico Capital, U Gro Capital, IndoStar Capital, Vogo, Bounce, KrazyBee, Ola, Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and completed a degree in Computer Engineering in 2005.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

5min Media, founded in 2006, has been named the largest independent video property by comScore, with more than 20 million unique viewers and more than 130 million video streams in the U.S. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., in August 2010. Marketing of the inserts is expected to start in 2011.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

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Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. When Google offered me a job in 2006, turning it down wasn’t an option. Date: September 4, 2013. I was wrong.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.