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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Studies show that among software engineers in India, new employees sought out more information when they were socialized within the organization. The most successful companies will back themselves with the right tools and software to get the job done right. Go Beyond Introductions with Socializing.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. 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! Irony, hey?).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the spirit of Fred Wilson’s awesome blog series MBA Mondays , I’ve decided to write a series of posts about this and asked for suggestions. Last week I expressed my frustration with the current lack of financial literacy that I see all around me. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday.

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Election Postscript – That’s Pride Talking

Growthink Blog

As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

Brad Feld (Brad is an advisor to K9) from the Foundry Group was instrumental in keeping the flame alive by posting about it on his blog ( The Founders Visa Movement ) in September. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. —– Indie.vc

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