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Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA!

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If you are a Colorado entrepreneur and want to be signed on to this letter, please either email me or put your name, company name, and title in the comments. I’ve tried to make this letter substantive around the issues so the Senators understand the fundamental issues with the bills.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

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Post on the White House blog titled Making It Easier for Immigrants to Start Companies in the United States by the Director of U.S. I don’t feel comfortable naming names as most people are very concerned about confidentiality around immigration issues, but I’m proud of the efforts by many of these entrepreneurs.

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Helping to Eliminate Racism in America

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He doesn’t need to be ashamed about the size of his head, his face flushing after a beer or his last name. But if they do, I want him to be sure of himself when he says, “The United States. I want him to grow up in an America that will treat him equally as a U.S. Just like you.

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Sawyer Opines on the Eastern District of Texas

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As I mentioned before, Sawyer is a real person named after our intrepid friend in LOST (I haven’t seen it this week – no spoilers please) who has agreed to help us navigate the parallel universe known as software patent land. There are a lot of stories told about EDTX and how it became a big spot for patent litigation.

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This Is The Smell Of Inevitability

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The punch line from Justice Breyer is right on the money: “ If you win this case, there is nothing to prevent the police or government from monitoring 24 hours a day every citizen of the United States.”. ” Philosophically this is a hard and complex discussion and has been since the creation of the United States of America.

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No One Gets Out Of This Alive

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Amy thought it was Woody Allen, a Google search turned up Jim Morrison (due to the name of his book), Robert Heinlein was cited as saying something similar, but in the end I decided it didn’t matter. . “No one gets out of this alive.” ” I went looking for the source this morning and couldn’t find one.

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Startup Opportunities Book Tour, Presented by Intuit QuickBooks

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When we first started writing this book in late 2013, we knew that we were going to do both a United States tour and a Canadian book tour. Our Naming Sponsor QuickBooks is dedicated to getting new, high-growth businesses off the ground. We flipped a coin to see which one we’d do first and Canada won.

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