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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.] We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. You can judge for yourself if we lived up to that promise: Lean Startup SmackDown from Frank Gruber on Vimeo. Expo SF (May.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Here are your options: PayPal Offspring Go Work at a Start-Up The Hope: You can get some experience and you’ll find your future technical co-founder Why You Should: You don’t have any money saved up and you have no idea how to product manage, acquire users or fund-raise. We tried this at Yipit and failed. link] Mark V. Any advice?