Thank You President Obama! Thank You!

March 16, 2012 by Leave a comment

The most well made with ZERO hype video in Politics ever made! Because of him, another American entrepreneur, that would be me :) ,  is alive today and covered with his pre-existing condition, working hard to start a new company and to create jobs. So, thank you Mr. President for your work!  FANTASTICO!

As I have worked hard to get the world to awesomize you, I’ll do my best to get America to awesomize you in Nov 2012. Considering the candidates you will be up against, It doesn’t look like you’ll be needing my help anyway :)  So please, don’t waste a dime on presidential campaign! Invest that on Startups in the Nation starting with mine, awesomize.me  only a few blocks from your house :)

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If You Build It Awesome…They Will Come

August 5, 2011 by Leave a comment

Minus the “Awesome” part, this was the line from the 1989 classic movie “Field of Dreams” that inspired me to become a risk taker and an entrepreneur that eventually drove me to build telezoo.com in 1999 and awesomzie.me in 2011. Certainly people are coming… I’ve included a few of them all the way at the end of this article:

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Venture-Backed Start-Ups Accelerate Hiring

April 27, 2010 by 1 Comment


by Elias Shams
Venture-backed start-ups accelerated their hiring during the first quarter of 2010, according to a new report by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

During the quarter, 13,314 jobs were posted by start-up companies on the website, up 16% since the end of 2009.

According to other studies referenced in the press release, public companies that were once venture-backed currently employ 12.1 million people, and current venture-backed companies employ roughly another half million people. NVCA president Mark Heesen believes startups and entrepreneurship are going to play a large role in the nation’s path toward financial prosperity. read more…

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Qiagen to Expand North American HQ in Germantown, Create 90 Jobs

April 18, 2010 by 1 Comment


by Elias Shams
The Dutch based company, Qiagen, a developer of technologies used in bioscience and genomics research plans to expand its North American headquarters in Germantown, adding at least 90 new full-time positions by 2015.

The company is investing $52 million to expand its corporate campus by 117,000 square feet, including both manufacturing and office space. Ground-breaking is expected to take place in the fall, with the project expected to be finished by 2012. read more…

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Will America Be Saved By Intel

February 26, 2010 by 2 Comments


by Elias Shams
Just finished reading one of the recent press release by Intel from my morning heaven, Tryst café in the heart of Adams Morgan.  It looks like the day I was on my way back from London to DC, Intel chief executive Paul Otellini was in our town unveiling their latest initiative called the Invest in America Alliance.

Intel will join forces with two dozen venture capitalist firms to invest 3.5 billion dollars in innovative US businesses including wireless infrastructure over the next two years and secured pledges from 17 tech companies to get bright college graduates into technology jobs. The Invest in America Alliance intends to achieve the following objectives: Read more…

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Create Five Jobs In America and Get A Green Card From Uncle Sam

February 25, 2010 by 26 Comments


by Elias Shams
A bill called the StartUp Visa Act was introduced yesterday in the Senate by both Democrats and Republicans that proposes a new type of visa for immigrants who create startups and jobs in the U.S. If passed, I hope the Congress makes sure it does NOT lead to more off-shoring of jobs – Five jobs in US that create 200 jobs in China or India. Not good for the US economy.

The two senators to thank for this bill are Democrat John Kerry busy with the ladies in the photo and the Republican Richard Lugar. I think it is encouraging that both a Democrat and a Republican introducing the bill. Let’s hope it makes it through.

Assuming the bill makes it all the way through and is enacted, here is what you need to do to get the Green Card: Read more…

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