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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! I guess I didn’t see it quite that way. and the founder of eBay and many others. You should, too.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

Before following in love with technology, George spent five years in politics, running campaigns and writing a book. It then fails to give them little, if any, opportunity to legally stay in the country to help benefit America with that America-born education. Why would America want to force out true talent?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. I actually have a chapter in the new book on how to develop a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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How Intrapreneurs Are The New Leaders In Corporate America

YoungUpstarts

A 2015 study by Ernst & Young showed that millennial workers value time freedom, personal development and the opportunity to make a difference all above even a higher salary. That could be anything from suggesting new policies to pitching ideas for new campaigns without being asked. Don’t sit and let the work come to you.

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Hamilton & Democracy 2016

thebarefootvc

I could not have predicted the painful 11 months of campaigning that would ensue after I bought those tickets. And again many times during this campaign. From a 2015 article in The Atlantic: Immigrants take our jobs. They make America less … American. America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me.