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

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Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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LA has the annual Monty Conference. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon. NY has a million including the obvious ones like AdWeek. It’s improbable to build the next SxSW in your city.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities? Jonathan Lehmann: The reception of the idea has been tremendous. It has been really amazing.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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

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When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom. One of the other things we do very well, and where we have engineering expertise, is we provide one-off, interactive IVR solutions for media companies in the Los Angeles Area.

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