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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., Remote teams are a great thing if you do it right: a team in India, a team in the U.K.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. For 2019, finalists come from Australia, India, Sweden, France, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the UK. This is really cool?—?this

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. GDP growth, the U.S.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. The professor would write on something that resembled a whiteboard. You couldn’t read it. That was supposed to be the best way for me to learn?

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. The dearth of trained computer science and engineering is crippling the growth of many Innovation Economy companies.