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

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman). TWTFelipe moved to Montreal, Canada. But I have some.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I am by no means an expert on “green&# businesses and sustainability, but I definitely have an interest in learning more about what this area is all about. Many moms chimed in saying sometimes going green is the safest for kids (e.g., Also, companies can be proactive rather than reactive by educating themselves on green issues.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

At this point, it’s clear that we must take a blitzscaling approach to funding, developing, and scaling both the existing technologies and new innovations that will allow us to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert looming planetary disaster. Then, there’s climate change.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I am by no means an expert on “green&# businesses and sustainability, but I definitely have an interest in learning more about what this area is all about. Many moms chimed in saying sometimes going green is the safest for kids (e.g., Also, companies can be proactive rather than reactive by educating themselves on green issues.