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

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post.

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Startup Financial Models: Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design

David Teten

But then again, very few of us will cofound a billion-dollar company which gets massive traction on day 1. There are obvious parallels with how to write code.). Extract all the inputs from each formula — those should be the only hard-coded elements in your model. The answer is, almost certainly not.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Tech ventures, some of whom were presenters at the earlier Demo Day, joined ventures in green energy and the life sciences. Applications are due by June 15th. Louis tech investor.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. I’d never thought an investment at the start would make such a difference”, said Jessica Krauter, co-founder of Buah. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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