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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. It was all technical.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life. He went to college to study art and design.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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While living in South America, founders Jacob and Eric gained a deep love and understanding of the cultures in that region of the world. We landed on Tumble because it works with our product design (our rugs are machine-washable), and it conjures up images of playfulness. Thanks to Emma Gordon, USSalvageYards ! #18-

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Hacking Education – Fracking Education

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(today''s blog post was co-authored with my partner, Matt Witheiler , with contributions from our colleague, Caitlin Strandberg ). Most K-12 schools are stuck in a silo mentality, implementing a rote learning model on a schedule that was designed for an agrarian society.

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

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.