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US Immigration Fails Entrepreneurs Again

Feld Thoughts

The conversation in Washington DC has shifted back to “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” With all the talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and the need for job creators in the US, our immigration policies are directly at odds with the concepts our politicians are telling us are critical for our economy to grow.

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than tw Shahab o years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., They’re also growing the fastest.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

Feld Thoughts

New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can qualify for an EB-2 green card with National Interest Waiver. I’ve been working on this issue since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement on 9/10/09 (all my posts can be seen in the category summary Startup Visa on my blog). Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., EDGE : Not everyone needs a co-founder.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Notley Ventures.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc. Take a look and let me know what you think.