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Boardifi – Getting Onboard With Being Energy Efficient

YoungUpstarts

It is said that billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has his Medina, Washington home fully incorporated with such technology. Ideaspotting Boardifi eco-friendly energy management green technology greentech mobile app' Take Boardifi , for example.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

Feld Thoughts

New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can qualify for an EB-2 green card with National Interest Waiver. While I’ve learned a lot about politics, Congress, and how Washington works in the past two years, one thing that became painfully apparent to me was that Congress was completely stalled on anything related to immigration issues.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

On their way to beating the Patriots so badly in Super Bowl XX that Patriots player Ron Wooten compared his team to the Washington Generals , the ’85-’86 Bears stomped everyone in the league except the Dolphins and Dan Marino, the Bears’ only loss of the year. 1985 Chicago Bears. Besides, JLA could beat the Avengers in a fight.

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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. One last note on reporting. Sometimes it makes sense to measure the micro-impact of a micro-change.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. Well it will be my job description once my team expands some more and I can delegate some of my daily engineering tasks. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Great post, very educational. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

Award “Graduation” Green Cards. Create a “High-Skill Immigrant” Green Card. “There’s Too Much Uncertainty – and It’s Washington’s Fault. Incentivize Experienced Talent to Consider Joining Growing Startups. Create a “Startup Visa” Create CitizenCorps.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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