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Massachusetts Has An Innovative Approach To Immigration Reform

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bizosys (10Screens) Then Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented 10Screens from Bizosys. Discuss.

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Year-End VC Report Shows Strength of Internet & Early Stage Investment

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billion in funding in 2792 deals - a 14% growth in funding and a 13% growth in deals over 2009. For those of you looking for a data point that suggests VC is back and on the road to recovery after 2009's tough sledding," the report reads , "the eight quarter high on deals and dollars gives you something to hang your hat on.

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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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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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ADPrentice 2010

Feld Thoughts

My frat at MIT has spawned numerous startups that I’ve written about in the past, including my post on 351 Massachusetts Avenue (home of the first office for my first company – Feld Technologies). .&# This is the second time we’ve done this – the last time was ADPrentice 2005.

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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. While there has periodically been improvement on the margins on the issue, I think our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. So, I’m going to try something different.