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Finance Fridays

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In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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Book: Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States

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I recently wrote the Foreword for Unshackled , a new book co-authored by Soundarya Basubramani , a writer from India, and Sameer Khedekar , a veteran immigration lawyer. Unshackled breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human. I read it over one weekend, and I loved it.

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Never Give Up, Never Surrender

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Triv was an engineer at a company I worked for when I first came to the US as a product manager. He went on to lead teams for Intel and Intuit and is now based in Bangalore, India. Kevin used to run all of R&D for Hasbro and founded their entertainment division. He used to be a client of mine.

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All Startups Should Consider Expanding In Multiple Geographies

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China and India work, but seem to be harder and more hit or miss. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations. Several of our companies have had great success in Eastern Europe and Russia with technical teams.

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My Last Post About This Election – Don’t Waste Your Vote

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. “You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.” ” (Suster). As a child growing up in Texas, I learned this in eighth grade American history.

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