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LinkedIn: Why Zuckerberg And Jobs Are Taking A Stand On Immigration 12 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
I’ve been one of the staunchest advocates of skilled immigration and have long argued that this should be a top legislative priority for Congress. As I explained in my book, Immigrant Exodus, skilled ...
Washington Post: Gambling with the soul of America 8 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
I used to believe that clearing up the skilled-immigrant backlog and creating a startup visa should be Congress’s top legislative priorities. This is what I focused on in my book, “Immigrant Exodus”. ...
Washington Post: Let’s curb our 3D-printer enthusiasm, folks 3 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
When the White House hypes a technology, it’s time to worry. In his Feb. State of the Union address, the President said 3D printing will “revolutionize the way we make almost everything”. He describe...
Wall Street Journal: If I Can Be An Entrepreneur, So Can You 27 Jul 2013 | 02:22 am
I was 33 years old when I became an entrepreneur. I had developed a revolutionary technology at First Boston, a New York-based investment bank, and IBM offered to invest $20 million in it—provided tha...
PBS NewsHour: The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent 26 Jul 2013 | 07:32 am
Diversity boosts high-tech innovation in America, argues Vivek Wadhwa. Paul Solman: There aren’t enough IT jobs to meet demand? Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at Pratt School of Engineering, Duke...
Wall Street Journal: You Need a Team to Help Climb The Mountain 23 Jul 2013 | 07:27 am
Building a company isn’t that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall. That is why most startups need to enli...
LinkedIn: Entrepreneurship: Worthless, Impossible and Stupid? 17 Jul 2013 | 07:30 am
One of the best and most fun books I’ve read on entrepreneurship is by my friend Daniel Isenberg, titled Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary...
Wall Street Journal: Business is Not Like Field Of Dreams 16 Jul 2013 | 07:25 am
“Our corporate motto should be ‘We’ve never heard of you either’”—that is how we joked at my first startup, Seer Technologies, which was founded in 1990. We had broken records by growing a nascent so...
Washington Post: Buck up, America. It’s going to get better. 10 Jul 2013 | 07:16 am
There are many reasons to be pessimistic. The economy continues to limp sideways, although limping is an improvement since the crash of 2008. Unemployment remains stubborn — not budging from 7.6 perce...
MIT Technology Review: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied 4 Jul 2013 | 02:17 am
Classic cluster: The team at Fairchild Semiconductor, shown here in 1960 in San Jose, California, would produce the first integrated circuit from silicon. Two, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, would lat...
