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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They’re not new. They’re not novel. They’re invisible.

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

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“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

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Or if you’re a developer perhaps you could donate time by dedicated to their hack-a-thon? I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. But in America nobody ever asked me where my dad came from. Every government form in England seemed to ask questions about my parents.

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