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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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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 hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company!

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After graduating high school, I was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS). After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN). Thanks to Katie Wagner, Katie Wagner Social Media ! #9 Image Credit: Anna Renault.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. It had all been a pipe dream.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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