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Is America’s Corporate Culture In The Dark Ages?

YoungUpstarts

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. Within the next few years, Mustang added offices in Melbourne and Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bogota, Colombia; Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; and Norway.

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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. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. The word is popular in South India. These names are too general. Try it and you’ll see.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India.

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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. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? since 2005. since 2005. They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? since 2005. since 2005. They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.