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

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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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). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. No Dave S. =

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Physically printed books or CDs with editors, reviewers and a centralized system are inherently slower and in many cases not even more accurate. We raised $16.5 Think about it.

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