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GEIR Program Will Add 10 New Entrepreneurs, Housed at UMass Boston Boston, Mass. (PRWEB) September 18, 2015 On Thursday, the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence (GEIR) program announced a major gift from Silicon Valley Bank, its first corporate...

A state plan to help foreign-born entrepreneurs stay in the country is getting a boost from the private sector. Silicon Valley Bank is donating $30,000 to the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence program, which helps startup founders wrangle...

Babson President Kerry Healey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh just announced that the school would be launching the first global entrepreneur-in-residence (GEIR) program to be offered by a private university. The program, which will kick off in the fall...

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...

With little movement on meaningful immigration reform from the federal government, entrepreneurs in Massachusetts and now Colorado are pursuing a local approach to enabling foreign-born startup founders to launch and grow their businesses in the U.S...