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Investing In Rural Startups: Green Card Targeted Employment Areas (TEAs)

The Startup Magazine

But if you’re just looking into getting an EB-5 green card, you’ve probably seen two investment types: the usual $1,800,000 investment or the $500,000 to $900,000 TEA investment. Is the USCIS saying you can invest in a project that’s $72,000 more than the average cost of a home and receive a permanent green card for it?

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Boardifi – Getting Onboard With Being Energy Efficient

YoungUpstarts

It is said that billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has his Medina, Washington home fully incorporated with such technology. Ideaspotting Boardifi eco-friendly energy management green technology greentech mobile app' Take Boardifi , for example.

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

Award “Graduation” Green Cards. Create a “High-Skill Immigrant” Green Card. “There’s Too Much Uncertainty – and It’s Washington’s Fault. Incentivize Experienced Talent to Consider Joining Growing Startups. Create a “Startup Visa” Create CitizenCorps.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

Feld Thoughts

New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can qualify for an EB-2 green card with National Interest Waiver. While I’ve learned a lot about politics, Congress, and how Washington works in the past two years, one thing that became painfully apparent to me was that Congress was completely stalled on anything related to immigration issues.

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Waiakea Water Joins List Of Sustainable Companies

YoungUpstarts

Here are some organizations committed to being green: World Wildlife Fund. This organization is based in Washington, DC. Their office space is green. Its workplace is green. Its product’s packaging is as green as possible. Its headquarters are in a LEED Platinum-certified building.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. with many more states pending legislation.