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7 Reasons Businesses Need Expert Online Visibility

YoungUpstarts

The fact is that the internet is now the epicenter for a business’ referral community, and your business must have a presence online in order to capture those referrals — even the ones that originate outside of the inter-webs. Let’s say you enter your business information into two directory sites — Yelp and Citysearch.

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US Immigration Fails Entrepreneurs Again

Feld Thoughts

A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Trover, A Mobile Location-Based Discovery Network

YoungUpstarts

The idea was first born as an idea among the management team at TravelPost , a community for travel enthusiasts. Trovers are passionate about sharing the unique things they uncover while exploring their cities or far away places,” says Jason Karas, CEO of Seattle, Washington-based Trover. Trover CEO Jason Karas.

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Democratizing The Tools Of Design

YoungUpstarts

These contrasting narratives are playing out in the design community as well, especially as it relates to design thinking. Kevin Bennett , co-author of ” Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works “, is a manager for marketing and partnership development at Personal, a technology start-up in Washington, D.C.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Navy’s was called CSAW ( Communications Supplemental Activity Washington ) also known as OPS-20-G. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington. Other nations try to read those messages by attempting to break those codes.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

Feld Thoughts

Public engagement between entrepreneur community and USCIS to inform new training of USCIS adjudicators. A number of colleagues throughout the entrepreneurial community (entrepreneurs, angels, VCs) joined in on the effort as it became a formal grass-roots movement, resulting in several bills being drafted in Congress in 2010 and then 2011.

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