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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. Government should learn from private industry and invest research funds just like a venture capitalist invests startup capital.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. We did projects with the Australian Federal Government and McAfee. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. We put our heads down, worked hard, and learned as we went.

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Save Money With Tech Tax Incentives

YoungUpstarts

Energy-efficient commercial buildings fall under section 179D of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, and businesses could qualify for $1.80 Eligible buildings must have been constructed or retrofitted after 2005, and the organization must submit to a third-party energy tax study. deduction per square foot. Community-specific tax deals.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. 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! I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Since 2005 a second generation of active safety features have appeared. Given the NHTSA and the FAA are both in the Department of Transportation ( DoT ), It makes you wonder whether these government agencies actively talk to and collaborate with each other and have integrated programs and common best practices. Lessons Learned.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The following year, twenty-two of twenty-three entrants in the 2005 Challenge surpassed the 7.3