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Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

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Silicon Valley investors often have a picture in their heads of the type of person who is worthy of funding: young, brash, stubborn, and arrogant. They believe that successful entrepreneurs come from entrepreneurial families and that they start their entrepreneurial journey by selling lemonade while in grade school. Angel [...]

New visa proposal to help create the next big thing

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A proposal that will make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs in the US to start the next Google or Yahoo will be debated in the new year.
Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice “foreigners with good ideas” to stay in the US.
The issue has been gathering steam in [...]

Startup-Hunting at the End of the Earth

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I’m sitting in Buenos Aires now, but last week I was in Puyuehue. Yeah, I had no clue where that was either when I got talked into embarking on a 20-something-hour day of travel to get there. If you look at a map of South America and trace your finger to the very [...]

Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs

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So the question is: why aren’t we (in the U.S. and Canada) as interested in these talented people from all over the world?
Are you an immigrant who is fed up with waiting for years for a green card which you may never get? Or a tech entrepreneur looking to dramatically cut costs? I’ve [...]

The Paradox of Web 2.0: Getting an Active Community is Hard to Do

Here’s the rub: creating the right platform for a community to form around can feel like fishing all day long when the fish aren’t biting.