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

Both Sides of the Table

So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. We then moved our CFO, David Lapter, to the US. You can imagine the complexities.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. The Joint Chiefs have no operational authority over troops. Global Integration of Operational Plans.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. We will obviously take a page out of their successful playbook. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

By almost any objective standard, paying into the billions of dollars for businesses with little revenues and/or significant operating losses - as is the case with all the companies mentioned above - is absurd. And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

Feld Thoughts

The fiction that strong patent rights lead to more domestic VC investment is highly damaging and utterly false in software, an industry where low capital intensity and low barriers to entry make product and user acquisition, not “IP,” king. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S.

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Basic Accounting And Legal Aspects That Every Business Owner Should Know

YoungUpstarts

For me, each new business venture should have between 2 (two) and a maximum of 4 (four) founders for optimal operation. Cristian Rennella is the founder of Mejor Trato , a tool for online loan comparison in South America, including Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. Participation. I will be very direct for this point.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

12- Digitize operations. and Europe and also contribute to the overall goal of reducing global emissions by replacing cars which operate on fuels with electric cars. This is to improve commercial spend efficiency, lower customer acquisition costs, and boost net retention rates. Thanks to Alina Clark, CocoDoc ! #12-