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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. A good sales interview is the opposite. Specifically, great sales people must be courageous, competitive and hungry.

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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. A good sales interview is the opposite. Specifically, great sales people must be courageous, competitive and hungry.

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How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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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 We’ll give it back to you with nice fonts.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

What you find is that ongoing development, as with any legacy system, is much slower than green field development. It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. As a former software engineer I hate to admit that sometimes the easiest thing to do is build the software.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Since launching, our brand name has been one of the elements that prospects have referenced time and again in sales calls. The brand name has stood out and acted as an earworm of sorts during the sales conversion process. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. Thanks to Carlyon Christian, Atlanta Green Maids ! #19-

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