Two years ago, Jim O’Leary lost his bid to continue running the MBTA’s commuter railroad. But that hasn’t stopped him from expanding his transit empire. Instead of worrying about the Rockport or Franklin lines, the former Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad chairman will turn his attention...
Standing under fluorescent lights at a San Francisco hospital, employees of Medisas Inc. were celebrating the debut of their medical records software. It was the product of two years of planning, coding, and countless meetings with hospital administrators, all driven by Gautam Sivakumar, the startup’s founder and chief executive...
A program that gives foreign students who attend Massachusetts colleges and universities the option of staying in the Bay State to build their businesses got a boost Thursday from Silicon Valley Bank. Gov. Deval Patrick established the so-called "Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program," administered by the...
A month after cutting a $1 million program that would help foreign entrepreneurs grow new businesses in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker’s administration has earmarked $100,000 to resurrect the effort, as part of the budget for the next fiscal year. Though the funding is a small fraction of the...
It’s not easy to “win” a visa in the high-skilled labor market. The application period for those coveted so-called H-1B visas began earlier this month and the annual quota was maxed out in just a week. Here in Massachusetts, some entrepreneurs are trying to work around the...
Don’t expect this kind of zippy action from your Congress… After having breakfast on Wednesday at the Mandarin Oriental in Boston, venture capitalists Brad Feld and Jeff Bussgang decided to “open-source” a novel strategy for creating more H1-B visas for entrepreneurs that was developed here in...
When Governor Charlie Baker started tackling the $760 million budget deficit, he proposed cutting from dozens of line items. But seldom has a cut of a mere $1 million caused such a fuss in the tech community. That’s because Baker wants to cut a fledgling program...
Gov. Charlie Baker plans to cut a pilot program established by Deval Patrick last year that gives foreign students who attended Massachusetts colleges and universities the option of staying in the Bay State to build their businesses. Patrick established the so-called "Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program,"administered...
As the Baker administration sorted through the myriad of program cuts needed to cover the $768 million in red ink Gov. Deval Patrick left behind, among the easier cuts were those in programs not even off the ground yet. Lots of things would be nice to...
Would immigration reform really boost American entrepreneurship rates? With President Obama’s executive action on immigration, stagnant rates of business creation, and new legislative proposals aimed at recruiting immigrant entrepreneurs, this seems like a salient question to ask. Pick up almost any academic paper on immigrant entrepreneurship...