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

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I filled up with 20 people pretty quickly and realized this schedule was masochistic. The one that stuck with me the longest was my chat with TWTFelipe (Felipe Coimbria). TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA By The Numbers.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Tags: startup interview voip labs xcast rees cliff.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.