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

Both Sides of the Table

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. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics.

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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. You can affect this process.