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

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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. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation! Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

socalTECH

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What would Sesame Street look like, if it was created in the world of smartphones, tablets, and YouTube?

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiradellis, JibJab

socalTECH

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). Gregg Spiradellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005. What would Sesame Street look like, if it was created in the world of smartphones, tablets, and YouTube?

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

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Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. We have invested heavily in this.

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How to Avoid a Common Product Mistake Many Teams Make

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I’ve been involved with technology product design in one form or another for nearly 25 years and seen one mistake consistently repeated. The single biggest mistake most product teams make is building technology for what they believe the user would want rather than what the actual end-user needs. I learned the hard way.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. We need some visibility.

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