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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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[INTERVIEW] Peter Tassiopoulos, President Of Sphere 3D Inc.

YoungUpstarts

“But I’ve also dealt with many successful entrepreneurs who were exposed to that model for bootstrapping and trying new ventures through their parents and others close to them,” he adds. “I Peter Tassiopoulos has focused on finance, technology and startups since 1992. He currently is vice chairman and president of Sphere 3D Inc.,

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Legal Services.

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Transcript of How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles. They had no choice but to build their company this way, because they were bootstrapping.