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

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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. 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. But I have some.

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

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I stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. 90% of all users will never contribute anything to your company. T-shirt can be ordered here: Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. Don’t.

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Why I Made the Decision to Go from Home Office to Coworking Space

Tech.Co

The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. In a coworking space, you have people working diligently all around you. For every tech startup, there’s a lawyer in private practice or a video production company.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

socalTECH

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. That was our main revenue source.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. TreeHouse is also a video company. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#.

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