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

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They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow.

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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 and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. But I have some.

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Bitesize Monday: eToro, Covertix, Iway, Tawkon, Grouper….

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I don’t think so, especially when Groupon can most certainly afford it… All in all, good choice on Groupon’s behalf most probably (despite making me envy-green). Is it worth the risk, when the alternative means starting with a working infrastructure? Other Israeli Groupon clones include Yemama , Baligam , and Buy2.