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Augmented Reality Event (ARE), May 17-18, 2011.

Tech Zulu Event

Last year’s ARE event was the largest event ever focused on advancing the Augmented Reality industry, with 520 attendees, 90 speakers, 30 hours of sessions, and one of a kind activities such as the ARt Gala, The Auggies Best AR Demo Award, and AR Startup Launchpads. The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event.

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American Immigration: The Invisible Wall to Innovation

Tech Zulu Event

A look around technology industry, perhaps the heart of the global revolution, shows a happily working international community all pushing for the common goal of innovation. An E visa is meant for foreign investors looking to start a business in the U.S. or purely invest in established U.S. In Silicon Valley’s favor, “U.S.

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Bio Roundup: RIP Roger Tsien, Novartis CAR-T Wheel, Zika News & More

Xconomy

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. —Healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: NOV ) is breaking up its cell and gene therapy R&D group , laying off roughly 30 percent of staff. .

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Health Care Reform - What It Can Mean for Small Business

Tech Coast Venture Network

A recent study by the RAND Corporation found that about 60% of employees who work at companies with 50 or fewer workers currently have an offer of health benefits from their employers. Many small businesses are set up as S-corporations or limited liability companies, "pass-through" entities for tax purposes.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. Here is a summary of indicative facts from the earlier study referenced, an update published last year, and others. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Startups in the U.S. We need a regulatory regime that nurtures startups, rather than penalizing them like giant corporations. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.