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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. The use of Secret Service resources, the home search warrant, the discovery refusal to provide raw hard drive images, the superseding indictment, and the reported plea negotiations & constraints; these all signal that Swartz’s acts were extremely serious, worthy of government resources.

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How To Speak Your Audience’s Language

YoungUpstarts

Are they peers, direct reports, or your company’s leadership team? At the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we use the term “across the river” to refer to the Harvard Business School, which sits across the Charles River in the town of Allston. Are they all of the same nationality, or are they a diverse group?

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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. The use of Secret Service resources, the home search warrant, the discovery refusal to provide raw hard drive images, the superseding indictment, and the reported plea negotiations & constraints; these all signal that Swartz’s acts were extremely serious, worthy of government resources.

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Trying Something New On Immigration In Colorado

Feld Thoughts

While there has periodically been improvement on the margins on the issue, I think our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. Government cu boulder eir silicon flatirons Startup Visa' I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it on 9/10/2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement.

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How Massachusetts Tried To Fleece Its Technology Sector With “Tech Tax”

ReadWriteStart

Massachusetts needs money. But Massachusetts looked at its burgeoning technology sector and thought that it could squeeze at least $160 million a year out the Commonwealth’s startups and established technology firms for funding of a transportation bill. So, the Massachusetts “Tech Tax” was born.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. Finally, we believe that government plays an important role in the technology economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific research. Donald Trump does not.