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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. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Second, the debt note requires a fixed due date (or “maturity date”) for repayment of the total amount borrowed, plus interest. San Francisco, California. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. San Francisco, California. → Learn More. 2011 Holiday.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.