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APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I look at the mess that is the United States political system and can’t help but wonder what kinds of investments we could make in infrastructure, education and sciences if we had more alignment. Leading me back to Churchill. At times the great progress of China feels like something to envy.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. What do Bill Gross and Gil Elbaz have in common that portends well for the future of LA Tech? Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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JUNE 22, 2015

You could sign exclusivity for coffee companies in the United States and still give yourself the ability to sell internationally if you choose to. The more specific you can get in your definition the better. Geography Bound – Finally, another natural limiter for you will be geography.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The paper even goes as far as saying, “our research cannot be generalized to the entire population of entrepreneurs in the United States, it is meant to be illustrative of the backgrounds of entrepreneurs.&#. If you’re interested in the topic and the data it is a worthwhile paper and you should read it.

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MARCH 6, 2017

It is literally the gateway to the United States or as Mayor Garcetti points out we are “the capital of the pacific rim” We are the only city in America with 3 of the top 25 universities in the country and we graduate more engineers now in LA than anywhere else in the country.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In fact, for every retired person in the United States, they are supported by 2.9 If you’re trying to reach the fastest growing, most dynamic, economically improving population in the United States you need to reach them on their terms, with their content and delivered authentically in their voice.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And while this author would find it hard to ever say anything positive about the current president of the United States there is perhaps one decision that he seems likely to take that would likely benefit the US technology sector — a tax holiday on the repatriation of foreign capital.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

“Within the next month or two, the United States Air Force will ask Boeing and Airbus (with its American partner, Northrop Grumman) to rebid for the $35 billion contract to replace its fleet of ageing aerial tankers. Airbus won the deal last year, only to have the decision overturned after a protest by Boeing.&#.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. .” “We’re crushing it.” ” None of these are true. Nor did Al Gore actually claim in “invented” the Internet. What did he actually say?

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JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1.

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MAY 13, 2010

How does the United States deal with 12-13 million illegal immigrants that are already in our country and came here illegally? How much do we bail out companies that were culpable of helping create our woes and what moral hazards does this create? How much health care is the right amount to provide?

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MAY 4, 2015

In the United States alone the self storage market is worth $24 billion in annual revenue and is totally fragmented with the largest player having around 10% of the total market. ” Let’s start with some basics.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Hulu is an online video distribution system owned by 3 of the largest 5 film & television suppliers in the United States with the goal of limiting the supply of high-quality online video available in order to defend high prices of the supply of this content on televisions through cable, satellite & broadcast TV.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Even though our 2000 fund was the single best performing fund in the United States for that vintage, continuing to get investments wasn’t possible so we had to rebuild. As venture fell out of favor all three pulled out of the asset class.

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MAY 10, 2015

I’m so tired of the nature of the legal system in the United States where bullying, intimidation and mobster-like shake-downs are becoming prevalent. *. Lawsuits. As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days.

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APRIL 14, 2015

The rates of child sexual abuse in the United States are staggering with the incidences as high as 1-in-5 for girls and 1-in-20 for boys. No crime is too small to go reported, no amount of abuse is tolerable and silence in light of knowledge is complicity. We must all speak up.

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JULY 6, 2015

We are a mostly A-round shop, have been around for 20 years and have a long track record including one fund that is the single best performing fund in the United States for its vintage year. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

It’s time that we allowed them to marry legally in the United States. It’s time to allow gay people to openly serve in our military with the same exact rights as heterosexual people. It’s time allow gay people to be married legally in California.

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AUGUST 21, 2010

The problem is that Egypt doesn’t support the Hague Convention and doesn’t have an extradition policy with the United States so they don’t recognize any of the international legal rulings in Colin’s favor.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Listen, if the President of the United States can work out every morning (at least W, Obama and Biden have) then you have no excuses. I didn’t sleep well last night. I have a sore ankle. I have too much work on my plate. I can’t work out when I travel. I know these excuses well.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

That means she’ll be the first female Vice President of the United States, the first female Black Vice President and the first Indian-American Vice President. That IS a big deal, but I’ll get to that. But Kamala Harris was picked to be the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. But let’s be clear. WE WILL WIN.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

But in the past year I’ve also realized something very important that I think gets missed in our anger about the blatant racism and anti-semitism and muslim fear-mongering promoted by the President of the United States and the apologists who surround him … I’ve also found my tribe and feel more bonded to them. They are engaged.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You likely know that Stacey Abrams recently ran for the governor of Georgia and in doing so was the first African American women to be the nominee of any major party in the history of the United States.

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JULY 10, 2016

Agreeing that Black lives matter does not make one anti-police — it simply acknowledges that we understand there is a white privilege in the United States that has existed since our foundation. Watch out Obama?” — threatening the president of the United States? Saying it out loud is obvious. And important. And Christian?

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APRIL 11, 2016

The film is a reminder of what is magical about the United States. After months of enduring the utter nonsense of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz talking about how America has lost its way I can’t recommend City of Gold highly enough as an antidote.

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MARCH 6, 2017

So … Not a single LP surveyed said Trump was the right leader for the United States and a clear 71% said they disliked Trump, were anti-Trump or were “deeply offended” by Trump.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

There are 53 million Hispanics in the United States (17.6% Some quick facts to help put things into perspective: There are 414 million people in the world whose primary language is Spanish while only 335 million have their primary language as English. of the population). 25% of all Millennials in the US are Hispanic.

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AUGUST 28, 2016

It is a “Sliding Doors” tale of a couple of life events that lift Vance and propel him to cross socio-economic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States. In each case J.D. could have made slightly different choices and had a greatly different life outcome.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If one lives in the United States or other stable economies it’s far fetched to suggest that cryptocurrencies are more stable or more widely accepted than one’s national currency like the dollar. China has already made moves to massively curtain Bitcoin activities so that should be a clue of what is to come. Regulation will come.

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JULY 17, 2017

My father is from Colombia and came to the United States for his residency in pediatrics more than 55 years ago. Interestingly if you add up the Muslims from Pakistan (176 million) and the Muslins from India (167 million) you have a population the size of the entire United States.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Yesterday was Halloween in the United States where children dress up and try to scare people as they “trick-or-treat” for candy. You don’t get to pretend for 5 years that the first African American president in US history wasn’t born in the United States and then get a free pass on running for the presidency.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We elected a man who called for the ban of Muslims entering the United States. Above all else — I am a citizen of the United States with two children and I care deeply about their future and about our future. A man who called Mexicans rapists & murderers. This is MY blog.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

If we live in a society where the President of the United States publicly bullies companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Carrier you can imagine what’s coming for our sector when they try to stand up to Trump’s autocratic tendencies. But think about this.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He knows that an African American was the President of the United States and there is literally no limit on what Jacob can achieve. Jacob will grow up knowing that anything is possible in America if we preserve our democracy and learn to govern together.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

There’s an old saying in polite circles in the United States that there are two things one should never talk about a social gatherings: Politics & Religion. He called for an outright ban on all muslims entering the United States and suggested we keep a database to track those who are here. We must vote anyways.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

She had no idea that in the last 2 years I had raised $16 million for refugees and we had personally moved 4,000 refugees out of Iraq and Syria — mainly to Australia because the United States wouldn’t take them.”

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