Startup Visa
Raise your hand if your life has been improved by an entrepreneur. (everyone’s hands better be up!)
Now raise your hand if that entrepreneur DOES NOT have ties to immigration if you go back 5-6 generations. (pretty much no one’s hand should be up!)
We have a problem in America in that entrepreneurs, smart and motivated entrepreneurs, want to move here and start companies here and solve problems here and CREATE JOBS here, and we can’t get our damn visa program together to faciliate that. So what do they do? Unless they have their own capital (find me an entrepreneur that does), they try to start those companies somewhere else.
The Startup Visa is trying to solve that:
StartupVisa.com was created by Eric Ries, Dave McClure,
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Entrepreneurial Energy
Wikipedia defines Energy as:
“In physics, energy (from the Greek – energeia, “activity, operation”, from – energos, “active, working”) is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law.”
Over lunch yesterday, I ended up having some discussions about where entrepreneurs get their energy. More on some of my thoughts around this later, and also on things I’m trying to do (like LaunchUp.org) to provide a spark of energy to entrepreneurs here in Utah.
But my main takeaway is this: Entrepreneurial energy is very different than that described by Wikipedia about energy in physics. Physical energy is subject to laws of conservation:
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Lunch w Seth Godin – “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”
I’ve never seen Seth Godin present in person. I’ve read a few of his books and occasionally follow his blog. Overall, I’ve been impressed with his thoughts and information.
Kelly King Anderson from StartupPrincess.com took the initiative and organized and event with Seth Godin here in SLC. She reached out to me, and needed some help with sponsors, so Doba signed on board to help the event out.
It’s at a cool new venue called The Rail Event Center.
Details: http://startupprincess.com/sethgodin/
Register: http://lunchwithsethgodin.eventbrite.com/
All the proceeds benefit the The Red Cross for Haiti Relief effort.
And I’m very much looking forward to seeing that head in person.
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2010 vSpring V|100 Nominations
Just got a notice last week that they were accepting nominations for the v100. I think it’s a great program, kudos to vSpring Capital for putting it on.
It’s a community-nominated and peer-selected organization for entrepreneurs in Utah.
I’ve been selected for the last 3 years running. Having said it’s great, it seems like when I go to the annual event or get the directory, it’s the likely suspects each year. I think that is backed up by that it’s been around for 7 years (100*7=700) however, there are only 260 members to date.
Anyway, like I said, it’s a great program and great idea.
To help it out a bit this year, I purposefully ignored my usual suspects, and nominated 15 early entrepreneurs that
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Mile High Club and In-N-Out Project Report
Well it’s official. Till this morning I was an in-flight wireless virgin. No longer. This is my first blog post from the friendly skies.
I’ve joined the Mile High Club of Internet denizens surfing from 30,000 feet above the ground. It. Is. Ridiculously. Awesome!!!
Give me enough extra batteries (sorry Apple, your battery life sucks) and GoGo and I’ll just keep flying round and round the world getting work done like a wild man.
Why am I flying? I’m headed to London for Doba meetings and then since I was close, Le Web next week in Paris. I’ll try to post anything that’s cool, they have a lot of heavy hitters coming for the conf.
Now on to more important matters. The In-N-Out Project was a smashing
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The In-N-Out Project: Think and Act Like a Kid (or life will be boring)
Tonight, I’m camping out at In-N-Out Burger in Draper, UT. They’re opening tomorrow.
It’s their second location in Utah. (or the 3rd as Orem opens tomorrow too)
I love In-N-Out. I first ate there when I married a California girl and started going to the Bay Area regularly. Since then, I’ve developed a rule while traveling: if I’m within 20 miles of an In-N-Out, I eat there.
Some might say this love (nah, I’ll admit it, call a spade a spade, it’s an obsession) is childish. I mean it’s only a hamburger joint. And some might say camping out there tonight in 20 degree temps on cement just to be front of the line tomorrow morning is a bit immature. I mean,
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Doba Dropshipping Blog
Today Doba launched our Dropshipping Blog.
It’s been a very long-time coming, and I’m excited to see Doba throw our hat into this ring. In the end, it’ll help us better engage and communicate with our community of suppliers, partners, and online sellers.
You can see some of the very smart and talented folks at Doba that will be postulating from time to time by checking out our Dobloggers.
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