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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Boxer, go read Friedman.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

Both Sides of the Table

Ramiro was demanding one thing?—?“visibility.” They brought children and demanded one thing?—?education: A special shout out to my pal, Mauricio Mota , on the left below who is also an immigrant from Brazil. He painted in cleaners and gardeners and nannies. visibility.” So, too, does León Krauze with his work.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. To tackle this, B-Free researched and patented another product based on market demand. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? The unstable economy demands that you develop entrepreneurial skills.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I have recently been doing some research on Entrepreneurship in Brazil, while also trying to start my own company. I wanted to ask you what you thought about “context&# ? a lot is written in general terms, mostly US centric. What about emerging economies, what caveats do they posses ?