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How Twitter Got Me into The White House & Saved My Son’s Birthday

Both Sides of the Table

One of the funnest days for me was the day we took the train into Washington DC and I took the boys for their first tour of the city to see all of the historic sites they were familiar with: The Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and, of course, the thing they asked about most – The White House. Holy cow.

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White House Honors Pediatrician, Geneticist and Entrepreneur, Atul Butte

Lightspeed Venture Partners

On Thursday of this week, the White House is honoring pediatrician, geneticist and entrepreneur, Atul Butte, as one of thirteen Champions of Change who are promoting and using open scientific data and publications to accelerate progress and improve our world.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

Instead of holding grudges and laying blame (case in point: Amazon recently sued the White House because Microsoft won a lucrative contract with them), business owners should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and improve. Although a major customer has walked away, it doesn’t mean he or she should be shunned.

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

Feld Thoughts

We were fraternity brothers and close friends and opened our first office directly across the street from our fraternity chapter house in Cambridge. It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business.

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Progress On The Startup Visa Movement

Feld Thoughts

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. In parallel, a number of us have been talking to key people in the White House, including the amazing Aneesh Chopra , the White House CTO.

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5 Ideal Locations For Young Startups

YoungUpstarts

These types of housing scenarios are quite common to find since they provide all the essentials to bring a team together for a short while to get work done. Corporate housing in San Diego is on the rise, which in turn helps the area’s startup scene flourish. Young startups love Thailand.

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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. When I was first approached to talk about how the White House could help entrepreneurs, I focused most of my comments on trying to help the folks I talked to understand the difference between high growth entrepreneurs and small business people.

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