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

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

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Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. Colossus, that is a household name, probably be, became even more so the last couple years says leaving GrubHub. Mike Evans (16:32): Yeah, there's, there's a website with a really weird name.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

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A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. John (20:54): Sounds like since you've moved to Colorado, you've taken up mountain biking. That's what I'm guessing.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Maybe not by name, but archetypally, that was the family that I wanted to affect. He kept hearing my name and he reached out one day and said, "I want to sit on your board.

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