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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. Alpha Lee : I'm Alpha Lee, a co-founder of PostEra.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name.

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