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Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement

Anyone familiar with internet startup culture knows how little capital it takes to start a tech company these days. With hardware and software costs practically nonexistent for most new companies, the main determinant of whether a promising startup ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Seedcamp Founder Saul Klein Talks European Entrepreneurship, Spotify and the Real-Time Web

In any case, Seedcamp’s six winners were announced earlier today. If you’re not familiar with Seedcamp, it’s a startup mentorship and funding program for European entrepreneurs that shares basic tenets with US-based Y Combinator and TechStars, among ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  Mark Hendrickson,  CERN,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

GeeksOnAPlane Gets Political in DC

It would seem that tech startup culture – which extols the virtues of agility, cost-efficiency and risk-taking – should make strange bedfellow with the staid, inefficient, and downright corporate practice of federal governance that’s conducted from ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  National Science Foundation

GeeksOnAPlane Jumps The Pond; But First, A Layover in DC

This past June I had the privilege of traveling to East Asia with a group of techies on a trip dubbed GeeksOnAPlane. The experience was a quick-and-dirty way to familiarize myself with the tech industries of Japan and China, since we were herded ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: White House

Desperate States and Decaying Federalism

The article focused on New York, New Jersey, and California, which are all cases of erstwhile prosperous states that have fallen on hard times. The common denominator has been liberal/“progressive” (i.e., big) government. All three employ heavy ...

From DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON, MND | MensNewsDaily.com,  31 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Congress

40 Years Later: Remember the Moon Landing

For those of you above a certain age, do you remember where you were on July 20, 1969? I certainly do. Just as many of us will never forget where we were when we learned about 9/11 or heard President Kennedy had been shot, many of us will always ...

From DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON, Crosswalk,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Neil Armstrong,  Buzz Aldrin,  Alan Shepard,  Edmund White

Upheaval in Honduras: A Defining Moment for Obama

Quick, what’s the capital of Honduras? Probably fewer than 10 percent of Americans could answer that question prior to the recent news that Honduran President Mel Zelaya was sent packing to Costa Rica by the Honduran military. While it’s too early to ...

From DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON, Crosswalk,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hugo Chávez

Leave It To Chinese Quarantine To Reinforce The Value Of Social Media

After a whirlwind tour of East Asia with GeeksOnAPlane (see my assessment posts for China and Japan here and here), I’m back in the states and almost fully recovered from a potent bout of jet lag. I’m not complaining, however, since several other ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  18 Jun 2009
Related Topics: TechCrunch,  Twitter Inc,  Skype

GeeksAPlane Briefing On The Chinese Tech Industry At Startonomics Beijing

This past Thursday, the GeeksOnAPlane group of traveling techies had the opportunity to attend Startonomics Beijing and learn about broad swaths of the Chinese web industry. The speakers, who represented companies such as Google China, Kong Zhong, Five ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  14 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Kaiser Kuo

GeeksOnAPlane: Learnings From Tokyo

Over the last two and a half days - the short window of time within which the GeeksOnAPlane group has been staying in Tokyo - I’ve attended two industry events (Tokyo 2.0 and Startonomics Japan) and talked with those who live or do business here about ...

From MARK HENDRICKSON, TechCrunch,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

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