Office-sharing venture caters to tech startups, looks to expand by year's end.
A little after 10 a.m. Wednesday at UberOffices in Rosslyn — it's Pitch Day at the office-sharing startup, which even at less than 4 months old is already developing the reputation for being one of the coolest new spaces in the Washington metro region. Every startup hub does it a little differently. Uber co-founder Raymond Rahbar says startups traditionally get four to seven minutes to make their pitch. But at UberOffices, they get 30 minutes. Typically, two to five businesses — some are members, some aren't — get face time with a small room full of investors. They get instant feedback and, if they're lucky, they eventually get the capital they need to move their company into its next phase. Sometimes, they may get a lead on another source…
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Senate candidate Tim Kaine attended the Rosslyn roundtable event and said the conversation shows a 'breadth' of bipartisan support for the issue.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine heard about the importance of immigration reform and access to capital from about 25 tech startups Tuesday afternoon at UberOffices in Rosslyn. The issues haven't been uncommon in his hard-fought campaign against former Sen. George Allen, a Republican. But they haven't always come up at the same time. "The connection of immigration reform to the talent economy was a really important theme here today," Kaine later told reporters. Kaine, who was joined at the office-sharing space by Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, heard story after story about how immigration reform was vital to the tech industry — from startups to giant companies, all of which want as few hurdles as possible when it comes to hiring …
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Dr Chill
6:58 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Startup 2.0 is a tax haven for Investors who want 0% capitail gains tax. This bill does nothing to create new jobs for Americans, and it doesn't allow the free market to let salaries for Americans to rise according to demand. It would allow visas for inexperienced students to compete directly with Americans for American jobs and would " import " outsourced workers so called "American Jobs" There … more ›