Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Nowhere is the politics more difficult than with co-founders, which is why for years I’ve spoken publicly about “ the co-founder mythology.” ” Of course we all go into businesses expecting to be aligned with our co-founders but over time life changes. Equity for the future?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. Technical founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. Hosted by the U.S. Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

The Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey is the only survey to obtain data from an extensive, nationwide universe of job creators and entrepreneurs in order to determine the most business-friendly locations. The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. Newark, NJ finished last in this year’s rankings.

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Virginia Rhode Island Austin North Carolina 41

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

You may have noticed that the Trump Administration is delaying Obama approved immigration policies to allow more startup entrepreneurs born in foreign countries to work legally in the US that was due to be enacted starting today. Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa.

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