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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. I was in Eastern Europe.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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