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GEIR Experience: Perfect Immigration Solution

GEIR Experience: Perfect Immigration Solution

by aijanisakova | Jan 21, 2020 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Mentoring, Startups

by Juan Morales, Tyme Wear Five years ago, I decided to leave Venezuela to pursue a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering at Boston University. I considered several options, but thought Boston would offer me the greatest exposure to high-tech and top notch research...
Can I Start a Company on a Visa? Of Course You Can, at Least in Boston.

Can I Start a Company on a Visa? Of Course You Can, at Least in Boston.

by aijanisakova | Oct 25, 2019 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program

by William Brah You can start a company on a visa as long as the visa permits you to engage in business. In general, a student visa isn’t one of these. The challenge is the amount of time it takes to get a work visa after you graduate even if you are qualified. While...
GEIR Experience: The Silver Lining in the Immigration Cloud

GEIR Experience: The Silver Lining in the Immigration Cloud

by aijanisakova | Aug 22, 2019 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Startups, Student Successes

by Thras Karydis, DeepCure Little longer than a year ago, I was sitting at my desk at the MIT Media Lab, reflecting on whether I had taken the right decision. Earlier that day, I had officially stopped my PhD at halftime, to join my lab mate and adviser in founding...
Verbotics AI is Disrupting Medical Billing in Healthcare

Verbotics AI is Disrupting Medical Billing in Healthcare

by aijanisakova | Jul 13, 2018 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Innovation, Startups

by Himanshu Agrawal Verbotics AI is building a fully automated medical coding and auditing system. This will bring down the time to encode a medical record from 5-20 minutes to ~200 milliseconds. We aim to not only help hospitals code quickly and more accurately but...
How to get a U.S. VISA as a startup founder

How to get a U.S. VISA as a startup founder

by aijanisakova | Jun 18, 2018 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Startups

by Felix Huettenbach Since founding my startup called W8X I have had conversations with numerous other entrepreneurs and the only question that is hotter than “How is fundraising going?”, especially among international entrepreneurs is “What VISA are you on?”. B1/B2...
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