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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. 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! He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. US technology companies are also benefiting from the expansion of the global middle class.

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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. This challenge?

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

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. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. Eric Ries : That's a technique and a form of social engineering, almost, that is usually thought of as coming from the software world.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In thinking through our investment choices, we should keep asking ourselves, if they had a massive shortage of software engineers, What Would China Do? Huge emerging economies in India and Brazil need to be opened up more aggressively with the help of the Congress and White House.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The blog software thinks Im spam, so if you want to find us, go to "build a sandcastle dot com" Sherlie Matthews (2010-06-19) # I need desperate help in revamping my website, self-built many years ago with Dreamweaver. Click on my name for the link.