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Massachusetts Has An Innovative Approach To Immigration Reform

Feld Thoughts

Two big proposals from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick today. He’s also proposing an incredibly clever and innovative approach to immigration reform applicable only to Massachusetts. The Massachusetts non-competition situation has always been stupid. First, he’s proposing to ban non-competition agreements.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match

Feld Thoughts

SVB had previously supported the Global EIR program in Boston with the University of Massachusetts, so I was delighted when they jumped on the opportunity to join a fundraising match with me across the entire country. In 2009, I was inspired when two of the ten Techstars Boulder companies that year had international founders.

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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 requires all states to set up health insurance exchanges by January of 2014. These exchanges will allow small and mid-size businesses (as well as individuals) to compare health insurance benefit plans for their employees.

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Trying Something New On Immigration In Colorado

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it on 9/10/2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement. Yesterday, CU Boulder announced a new Entrepreneurs in Residence program to be administered by the Silicon Flatirons program. We have a broad model for engagement in Boulder for new entrepreneurs.

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Update From ADPrentice

Feld Thoughts

A few months ago I wrote a post titled Startups at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA detailing the rich history of startups from ADP that happened around the time I was living there. They are clearly the future – and we want more of them to be entrepreneurs. Congrats to all of you – you make me proud to know you.

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Running & Reading

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts → Running & Reading Posted on January 13, 2009 by fnazeeri Just saw this over on Brad Feld’s blog and had to repost.