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MARCH 8, 2021

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. citizen, and not one where he will be asked “But where are you really from?” Just like you. The next is by Craig Lewis, CEO of Gig Wage.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

We just had an armed insurrection in the United States. The economic crisis continues. The mental health crisis continues. The racial equity crisis continues. Economic inequity is accelerating at a crazy pace. 4,406 people died of Covid in the US in the last 24 hours. I’m a long term optimist.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

I continue to be a strong supporter of legal immigration to the United States. A fundamental belief of mine is that entrepreneurs should be able to start their companies anywhere they want.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

customers to start and grow their businesses in the United States, and to remain permanently if their companies grow further, create jobs for American workers, and strengthen our economy.” universities who have found employment in the United States. investors or revenue from U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

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. Press release from the Department of Homeland Security titled Secretary Napolitano Announces Initiatives to Promote Startup Enterprises and Spur Job Creation.

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JULY 15, 2020

Pomata was shocked by the direction that the pandemic was taking in the United States. I’m very sorry for the state of your country, which seems to be in the grip of a horrible attack of unreason.”

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JANUARY 8, 2021

When I woke up Monday morning, I didn’t expect so much of our morning coffee this week to discuss what was going on in politics in the United States. Regardless of the previous day, it gives me a clear way to Simply Being Again , each morning with my beloved. Mine was Richard Nixon being impeached. I was seven years old.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

If you look at the landscape of success entrepreneurs in the United States you see a remarkable number of first and second generation immigrants. .” As I sat in an audience of about 200 extremely accomplished MIT graduates spanning over 50 years, I thought to myself “he just f **g nailed it.”

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Accelerators business david cohen entrepreneur global accelerator network Seed money TechStars United States Venture Capital' The post A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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JUNE 30, 2020

I personally believe that April is going to be an awful month in the United States as the true extent of the health crisis finally hits in our country. There will be many different phases of this, but if you prepare for a long-term experience, you’ll be in a much healthier emotional place.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

I would describe a well-run central bank like the United States Federal Reserve the way Churchill described democracy: the worst solution to the problem of managing a monetary system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Addressing the actions of the NSA that should cause outrage, or at least a deep, thoughtful conversation about what the appropriate boundaries for government surveillance in the United States. There are some really profound forces at work that will impact the United States, our notion of democracy, and privacy, for many years.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

ends with something I wish everyone in the United States would read, ponder, and take action on. And, his posthumous OpEd in the NY Times, Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation, which starts: Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.

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APRIL 20, 2012

Since I moved to Boulder in 1995, I’ve watched and participated in the evolution of an amazing startup community which I believe currently has the highest entrepreneurial density in the United States. May 16th-20th will be packed with several dozen meetups, events, parties, and outdoors activities.

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APRIL 27, 2020

We are starting to exit phase 1 of the Covid Crisis in the United States. If you find the whole thing extremely disorienting, you have my empathy. In mid-April, I was getting used to the Stay at Home mode. I’d joke about how I was made for this and was never leaving my house again.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation to drive job creation and increase America’s global competiveness by helping immigrant entrepreneurs secure visas to the United States. Following is the text from the press release announcing the bill: “Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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JULY 12, 2020

During this period, the KKK had a new resurgence, which reinforced many aspects of systemic racism, both related to this period in Tulsa, as well as across the entire United States. Alongside this was a continual denial of any sort of meaningful redress or compensation by the White leadership of Tulsa.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Today’s post is on the famed “Eastern District of Texas” (EDTX), one of the most popular places in the United States for patent litigation. I’m channeling Sawyer’s points of view as a public service announcement since he’s uncomfortable being named publicly – these are his words, not mine.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

The year 2018, especially in the United States, was full of endless, chaotic noise that carried very little signal. I try not to pay attention to the macro (as I’ve said many times), but I do think it is important to have a frame of reference about it. My frame of reference has a few components.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

The punch line in the post is: “By many measures , Colorado is the most entrepreneurial state in the country, a fact that I discovered in 2013 when studying high-technology business formation around the United States.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

While the firm I’m a partner in — Foundry Group — invests all over the United States, I regularly hear statements like, “The only place to start a tech company is in Silicon Valley.”. We are in the midst of an entrepreneurial revival across the United States (and the world) right now. in 2006, we had two goals in mind.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday Amy and I contributed $10,000 to the MakerBot Academy campaign which is on a mission to put a MakerBot 3D printer in every school in the United States. We did it via a contribution on Donors Choose , one of our favorite non-profit contribution sites.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

We’ll be covering the cost of the unit and work with you to optimize the hotspot’s reach in the area. If we’re successful, we could be one of the first regions of the United States with comprehensive coverage on the network! In return, we’ll be providing hosts with a % of the network’s tokens ‘mined’ by the hotspots. .

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JUNE 23, 2010

Recently, TechStars began expanding outside the United States through its new TechStars Global Affiliate program. From experience, we know that investing internationally from the United States is difficult. However, the demand from entrepreneurs throughout the world for a TechStars-like program has been substantial.

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MAY 23, 2013

Scott Case and Steve Case, along with their team, have done an outstanding job at Startup America Partnership mobilizing broad startup community initiatives across the United States and elevating the understanding and importance of entrepreneurship at a national level.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Boundless Immigration aspires to be the leading brand around legal immigration in the United States. This is a case where there isn’t a tradeoff between making a profit and making an impact. They take an incredibly time-consuming and expensive process – immigrating to the U.S.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

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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MAY 6, 2017

Along the way, his eyes are opened to the similar struggles of his own roommates – other immigrants equally seen as “temporary workers” in the United States, who drive nice cars but avoid investing in furniture for fear of having to leave it all behind.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

While the book is primarily about a case referred to as The Groveland Boys , it uses the story of this case to explore the deep racism, illegal behavior, lawlessness, violence, discrimination, corruption, and political deceit that existed in the United States in large parts of the South in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

When we started Foundry Group, we said that 33% of our investments would be in California (which, at the time, we thought of as equivalent to the Bay Area), 33% would be in Colorado, and 34% would be in the rest of the United States. We have always believed that great companies can be created anywhere.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

We committed to this when we started Foundry Group as our strategy was to invest across the United States while being based in Boulder. My partners at Foundry Group all travel a lot – think 100,000 miles per year for each of this. We knew that we were signing up for a lot of travel.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

We’ll also be joined by several special guests, including Scott Case (Startup America Partnership CEO) and Aneesh Chopra (United States Chief Technology Officer). We have a panel discussing what has happened in Boulder over the past decade and one about the power of mentorship. Please register at the Silicon Flatirons site.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

That Boulder was number one was interesting, but what’s more exciting is that there are so many emergent startup communities around the United States that it’s now worth ranking them. You may have seen the recent Kauffman Foundation study that ranked Boulder tops among all cities in the U.S. in terms of tech-startup density.

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JUNE 4, 2019

That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. It was indeed private equity’s moment. Blackstone’s partners, though, had decidedly mixed feelings about the bonanza. They began to worry that the market was overheating.

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APRIL 15, 2013

TechStars surpassed our wildest expectations and now runs over 10 programs a year for over 100 start-ups around the United States. We ran the second program in 2008, expanded to Boston in 2009, and adopted a funding strategy for each local program which we continue to use to this day.

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MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. The open data movement is great for business, but is also great for us as citizens. On June 1st and 2nd the largest hackathon in the world is forming.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

Last night at dinner I got into a conversation with Greg Gottesman about the trillion dollars of student loans outstanding in the United States. Greg pointed me to this awesome TEDx Talk that he did recently on the topic.

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