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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. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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7 Keys to Using Your Network to Test Your Product

Tech Zulu Event

We’d like to think the successful testing was a result of diligence in our communication and persistence with our test users, but in reality we were just lucky to have the perfect test group. I have played professional baseball since graduating college in 2005, most recently playing in Triple-A with the Kansas City Royals.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Prior to joining DWA Chris worked at Activision Blizzard for 13 years, during which time he held a number of role including Executive Producer and Lead Game Designer. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Make sure to tune in!

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Since 1996, Gross has been running Idealab. jebbdykstra99.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.