10 May Techstars Boulder 2017 Demo Day: Global EIR
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10 May Global EIR featured on NPR Morning Edition
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We're proud to share that Global EIR was covered nationally on 3 May by NPR Morning Edition! Morning Edition's coverage tells our story through one of the UMass Global EIR founders, Paulo Melo of doDoc. Through Global EIR, Paulo had the support he needed to build doDoc....
14 Feb Global EIR 2016 Annual Report
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23 Nov Expired Visa? Babson Wants To Help
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Babson College will be the first private school to offer a program that helps entrepreneurs with expiring visas stay in the country. The Global Entrepreneur in Residence (GEIR) program, announced yesterday (June 15), will be run through the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and will...
23 Nov Today, we’re proud to welcome San Jose State University to the Global Entrepreneur In Residence
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Today, we’re proud to welcome San Jose State University to the Global Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) Coalition of colleges and universities around the country who are expanding opportunities for immigration entrepreneurs to drive economic growth and create jobs. These university Global EIR programs enable founders...
15 Oct Unshackled and Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program Partner to Serve Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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Unshackled Will Offer Investment Capital to Global Entrepreneurs On Thursday, the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence (GEIR) program announced a partnership with Unshackled, an investment fund based in Palo Alto, California, backed by 80 of America's most influential investors. In a major step to retain entrepreneurial talent in...
01 Sep UMSL launching accelerator for international entrepreneurs this month
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A new project at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the UMSL International Accelerator, is launching this month with the goal of creating pathways for international entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth of their businesses in St. Louis. The accelerator has received a $50,000 gift from Civic Progress, an organization of CEOs and...
29 Aug Civic Progress invests in UMSL International Accelerator project
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[caption id="attachment_327" align="alignleft" width="818"] Civic Progress representative Kathleen Stroup (front row, left) recently presented a check for $50,000 to UMSL Accelerate’s Dan Lauer (front row, center) and UMSL Chancellor Tom George (front row, right). Standing (from left) are College of Business Administration Dean Charlie Hoffman,...
06 Jul US colleges court foreign entrepreneurs who need visas
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BOSTON (AP) — He came to America on a student visa, earned a master's degree from Babson College and is now starting a new business, but Abhinav Sureka worries that he'll have to return to India. To stay, he needs an H-1B visa, a temporary...
04 Apr Don’t send foreign entrepreneurs packing
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MANY HIGH-TECH entrepreneurs dread this time of year — the annual lottery for H-1B visas is about to get underway. More than 300,000 skilled foreign workers will apply to receive one of only 85,000 of the magic tickets that allow them to take jobs in...