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by rachellaw 11y ago
I have an O-1 visa, it's not impossible and it's a great visa to have since you can reuse the same documents for your initial application for subsequent renewal. The key is to get as many peer references you can get in your indu
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by rachellaw 11y ago
Sam A. said that they received around +6500~ applications, so being in the top 300 would make you in the 5% https://twitter.com/sama/status/626523690533027840
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by rachellaw 11y ago
I'm assuming that the founders they're looking for are already on a Series A or have a nice cushion of savings or positive cashflow? I'm making 5x lower than I previously did (thanks for reminding me!) after bootstrapping thr
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by rachellaw 11y ago
not the OP, but I met mine in grad school. We were working on different projects in a similar area. We really only decided to become cofounders after a year of graduating, because finishing one thesis and immediately hopping to another seem
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by rachellaw 11y ago
agree, and I'll extend it to finding cofounders through hackathons too. It's a huge ask for both parties, especially since you'll be financially and mentally be in each other's pockets the whole time. You don't do t
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Massless particle discovery could radically accelerate electronics(gizmag.com)
1 points by rachellaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by rachellaw 11y ago
I think otherwise though, it seems like the fellowship was to try for remote program. See this article by SamA: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce... I'm just concerned if they&
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by rachellaw 11y ago
Hey Kat, Would YC Fellowship be open to later stage startups? We've already gone through a previous accelerator, done some fundraising (below series A) and have employees. Moving would be difficult for us since our key business is in f
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by rachellaw 12y ago
it's still bloody damn hard i get nightmares about cashflow
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by rachellaw 12y ago
Note if you don't get a response from hello@interfacefoundry you can email me directly at rachel AT milkred DOT net (personal)
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by rachellaw 12y ago
Interface Foundry – New York City – (Full time, Interns and H1B; developers and designers) We let users browse and build their own data bubbles -- data pinned to a specific location or time, consolidating apps and other widgets into a singl
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The Internet Archive Opens Its Historical Software Collection To All(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
2 points by rachellaw 13y ago|0 comments
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by rachellaw 13y ago
Some things just require a lot of time to grow, either because it's a new problem or a new technology. We were lucky because both of us (founders) had a headstart in academia, which funded our research for 2 years. We could chart proto
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by rachellaw 13y ago
I'm an international student on OPT doing startup, but the proposal still makes me uneasy. There's already too much of business interests lobbying in politics and I've seen that happen in my home country -- what starts off as
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by rachellaw 13y ago
I remember O-1 visas had several types, it's the O-1B visa http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...
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by rachellaw 13y ago
seconded - btw do you have a STEM related degree though? there's now an additional provision for OPT extension if you graduated from a STEM related field.
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by rachellaw 13y ago
They can do it using O-3 visa, its the same classification as an O-1 but of a different type. Assuming they incorporated the startup, and then immediately received funding and started visa process (in that order) they can use percentage poi
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by rachellaw 13y ago
Your lawyer chose the wrong visa for you O-1 visas were specifically created for entertainers and athletes at first. It wasn't meant for business. It was later extended to include Nobel prize winners and other academics during Cold War
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by rachellaw 13y ago
Re:2 The power balance between a startup and a VC is unequal compared to universities, big companies etc. The type of visa ascribed to each class is consequently different as well For instance student visas under F-1 can have OPT extensions
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Google Street View hack turns your city into a post-apocalyptic jungle(theverge.com)
2 points by rachellaw 13y ago|1 comments
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by rachellaw 13y ago
I'm the "non-technical" co-founder of my startup, and I used to program web server gateways in python. It just happens that our technical architecture that we're using isn't really my area of specalisation (it'
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by rachellaw 13y ago
It's the subheading that kills me: : Reality, legislator argues, needs to comport with the state's economic interests.
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Wyoming rejects science education standards over climate change(arstechnica.com)
4 points by rachellaw 13y ago|3 comments
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by rachellaw 13y ago
GMT is more reliable than UTC, doesn't change with daylight savings. It's also the SI-unit for science methods, so it works internationally.
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Meet the 'Most Connected Man' in the World(mashable.com)
2 points by rachellaw 13y ago|0 comments
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Women in Computing: The Night I was the Belle of the Ball(groupthink.jezebel.com)
29 points by rachellaw 13y ago|16 comments
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by rachellaw 13y ago
In New York, there's a relatively large indie game scene. They hire game developers, but usually for casual games i.e. iOS app games (think flappy bird) or indie games
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by rachellaw 13y ago
Depends on what type I think. I'm a front-end primarily, and it's not that bad (as a woman) but my friends who are back-end developers find it harder to get accepted at workplace. This is all anecdotal of course
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by rachellaw 13y ago
It's not just math, you can put any traditionally male-dominated field in and it'll still work i.e. Study: Women Who Can Code Still Don't Get Hired; Study: Women Who Write Games Still Don't Get Hired etc etc
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by rachellaw 13y ago
Carlson is looking at things from a very narrow perspective. If the industry has high barriers to entry, an incubator can help because it just gives that extra lead time you need to get a product to launch. Not all products are apps that yo

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