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How to find the right cofounder

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s a common issue – you have an idea that will require some technical know-how (eg coding, engineering, science) but don’t have those skills yourself. So why should a well paid developer, engineer or maker give it up and come and work on your startup? Building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is relatively cheap.

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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. Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Twitter Link Roundup #203 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

It was made by GoldieBox , a company creating building-block toys for girls to inspire future engineers. Google’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine? | Transylvania, Romania) – crowdspring.co/18rf4fA. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. Our own engineering team working for oDesk is made up primarily of Russians and Ukrainians. Of those 350 freelancers I’d guess we have between 40 and 50 countries represented.”.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering degree.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

Romania 44