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

Both Sides of the Table

By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Irony, hey?). He was fortunate.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). The pandemic has been devastating in many ways — from total number of deaths (in the U.S.

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[Review] How China’s Leaders Think

YoungUpstarts

The nation-building blueprint was ratified into the Chinese Communist Party’s Constitution in 2007. Li Yuanchao, for instance, was stated as the party secretary of Jiangsu when Liang Baohua has already succeeded him since 2007. Kuhn’s access to a handful of head honchos in China Inc also reveals the tenacity of Chinese entrepreneurs.