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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. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so.

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Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People

Ben's Blog

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People

Ben's Blog

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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The Matrix, Project Management Edition

YoungUpstarts

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. So if the “green task” is chosen, it makes the most sense, versus finding out much later that the “red one” would have been better.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based based defense and intelligence agencies!

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When I started my own welding business in 2004 after managing other welding companies for years, I consciously chose to throw out that playbook, because the problem I saw with generic names and generic white company trucks was that they were all interchangeable to the companies hiring their services. 19- A verb that mean two things.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. Theoretically, i can visualize the Continuous Integration as RAD ( Rapid action development) along with iterative method, which we used to study in Software Engineering's Process model.