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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. The world’s best brains are on sale.

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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. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. 4 – Sr.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

The three founders shared a vision, built the exercise machines in the garage, and knocked on doors at health clubs, attended trade shows, and worked the phone to get initial sales. How Much Diligence is Due. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way. ► February. (1). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

This doesn’t necessarily mean that the people involved aren’t hard-working; they may in fact be quite diligent in turning the crank on an existing process. This may be due to industry-specific technological change. But other times it is due to the indirect effects of broader change.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

The term Domain-Driven Design was originally coined by Eric Evans in his book, “Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” which came out in 2004, so this isn’t a new concept. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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

www.quora.com

Henry , Chris Callahan , Travis Briggs , Nene Kalu , Nikolay Pohodnya , Jamin Wong , Nick Gauthier , Anon User, Andrea Narciso , Steve Shapero , Max Yankov , Christopher Wiley , Bruce Serven and Tony Karrer This question gets asked a lot on Quora, but this one strikes me due to the phrasing. Wild guess: nope, you never heard of him / her.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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