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

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6%

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

As it happens almost every few years there was a new normal developing. I refer to this as The Venture Spiral (blog post from 2008). Venture capital is, and should remain, a boutique industry (See The Venture Boutique , blog post from 2008). Stop living in denial. Scaling venture capital breaks it.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

ReadWriteStart

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Water Equals Food Equals Income

Feld Thoughts

In 2008 Frykman founded Driptech , his for-profit social venture located in Palo Alto, CA, with a mission to create extremely affordable, water efficient irrigation solutions for small-plot farmers in developing nations.

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Web 3.0+: The Hyperconnected Global Internet

thebarefootvc

The Italian Renaissance, Gupta dynasty in India and Ming dynasty in China were periods of more balance between the logical and creative and resulted in stable, cultured societies which fostered much innovation across sectors.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. and the development team in Israel. That’s the good news.