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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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12 Tips for Creating and Nurturing Efficient Two-Pizza Teams

YoungUpstarts

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas. In 1989, FedEx knew that it needed to update its old, slow technology. Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. This is not as radical as it sounds. Is this fair?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin. IS THERE ROOM FOR MORE LOCAL CAPITAL IN AUSTIN?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.