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7 US startup visa options for international founders

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. There is no other place like Silicon Valley, the tech Mecca of access to great talent, capital and countless prospective clients.

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Getting your startup visa: Seven tips on choosing the right immigration attorney

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. While Congress is trying to decide on immigration reform, I’ve been through the excruciating, year-and-a-half-long process of getting a long-term US visa.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Let’s start with San Francisco.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

And aside from the obvious pride of getting involved with your home town, you obviously know a lot more about the local strengths of human resources that places like San Francisco, NY or LA might be quicker to dismiss. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

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San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. Software is eating the whole world and in 10 or 20 years, if you don't know how to program it [will be] like 50 years ago not knowing how to read and write. A Vocational School for Programmers. People need to do this,” Bishay said.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. Structural.