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

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs.

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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

VC Cafe

For example, you can save 7 trees in the rain forest in south america for £1, and in India you can get all you can eat curry…(see the presentation on the link below – 300 views in about 1 hour from posting!). Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Finding Flow

YoungUpstarts

South America, Europe, or India and then traveling across the globe to lead another retreat. Suddenly, time wasn’t a problem anymore. I stopped needing 9 or 10 hours of sleep to feel fully rested. I’m sleeping less and leading 10-day retreats for thousands of people in the U.S., It’s work that requires tremendous output.

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

Steve Blank

The top right shows the civilian-military dialog that gives the military direction for the development and execution of military plans. military responsible for developing our military’s strategies and plans for conducting future wars. We would be developing those Plans in isolation because it was us against one adversary or another.

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

Alec Lynch, founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, tells TNW he believes the company has developed a crowdsourcing process that has helped it grow faster than its competitors. In particular, we’ve developed a crowdsourcing model that is fairer and more lucrative for designers and, in turn, better for customers.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a developer perhaps you could donate time by dedicated to their hack-a-thon? In India in order to fill out paperwork to import IT equipment for when I opened our offices there in Pune, the form asked where my grandfather was from. Still, I’m proud to live in America. They now give away $32 million per year.

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Globalisation vs Nationalism – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Even tomatoes weren’t used in Italian food during the Roman Empire – they arrived much later from South America! A natural reaction is to hunker down, fight change, push back and develop a nationalist viewpoint to protect ourselves from the unknown. For instance, the languages we speak and the number systems we use.