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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. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur Runs Coding Academy To Help Students Gain Real-world Software Development Skills

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Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. Ricigliano is a stubborn entrepreneur who doggedly pursues the “why” behind every thought. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? towards finding a new job in the field.

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

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An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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

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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 I’m on record all over place saying that 70% of my investment decision is the team & 30% is the market.

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Toine Rodenburg: Moving Merchandise with MyMalls

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Toine Rodenburg is a seasoned international investor and entrepreneur with a knack for spotting trends and opportunities. These days, Toine Rodenburg is best known as the co-founder of MyMalls, a top-tier online delivery service catering to the Caribbean, Canadian, and Latin American markets.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark.