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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The green in the sky is the aurora borealis. The best engineering flow chart ever – [link]. 41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Amazon Says Long Term And Means It - [link].

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? since 2005. since 2005. They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. Make more green cards available. economy moving forward.

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Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.)

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? since 2005. since 2005. They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. Make more green cards available. economy moving forward.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Additionally, in Colorado and elsewhere, there is a shortage of students entering STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education.

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? since 2005. since 2005. They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. Make more green cards available. economy moving forward.