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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. The world’s best brains are on sale.

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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

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“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . Most US high-tech companies begin the utility patent process by filing a provisional patent application. Provisional Approach.

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Don’t Assume Product Plans are Better Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2% Sales fell in every region of the country with the Midwest suffering the worst at 35%.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy.