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| Mar 20, 2013 | How Many Kinds Of Immigrant Visas Does It Take To Staff A Startup? | Guest author Michael J. Petrucelli is the founder and executive chairman of iClearpath, an online immigration startup.
Despite the United States’ rich history as a haven for ambitious immigrants, many foreigners looking to work in the U.S. ... |
| Jan 15, 2012 | The New Political Battleground: Your Social Network | Editor’s Note: David Binetti is the CEO and co-founder of Votizen, a consumer technology company based in Mountain View, CA focussed on giving voters a greater voice. You can follow Binetti on Twitter @dbinetti.
I have a stark fact to share... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Congratulations @BackType! | I’m pleased to announce that K9 Ventures’ portfolio company BackType (@BackType) has been acquired by Twitter. Huge congratulations to the founding team of Christopher Golda (@golda) and Michael Montano (@michaelmontano)!
I was first intro... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | The Chorus For Immigration Reform Grows Louder | Yesterday, Mike Bloomberg went to Washington and spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on the topic of immigration reform. The text of the entire speech is here. I just read the whole thing and I'm encouraged and excited that the chorus... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | #startupvisa | Some huge percentage of startup companies in this country are founded by immigrants. Not surprising. It has always been that way in America. But in the wake of 9/11, we've shut our borders and become intolerant of people from other cultures... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Finally, a Startup Visa That Works | In my last post about the Startup Visa, I was very critical of the Kerry–Lugar legislation. That’s because it required immigrant entrepreneurs to raise at least $250,000 in financing for their startups, of which $100,000 had to come from Am... |
| Sep 26, 2010 | Dave McClure's First Investment In China: ChinaNetCloud (TCTV) | This guest post is by Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups and GeeksOnaPlane.
As we wrap up our GeeksOnaPlane video series for TechCrunch TV, I thought I’d offer a perspective on Asia from the eyes of a Silicon Valley geek and investor (no... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Who will champion entrepreneurship in Washington? | (Editor’s note: Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. This column originally appeared on his blog Seeing Both Sides.)
I love Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful settings in the ... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | Immigration Reform | Last night my partners and I hosted a fundraiser for NY's senior Senator Chuck Schumer. I've written about my fondness for Chuck on this blog before and I remain a fan and supporter.
Chuck told a story to a small group that had assembled be... |
| May 26, 2010 | GeeksOnAPlane Get First Crash Course On Asia's Internet Market In Shanghai | Traveling around the world, learning, networking, sharing – that’s what GeeksOnAPlane (GOAP), a field trip of sorts (which takes place a couple of times a year), is mainly about. This time, the tour is leading a group of 30+ geeks (mainly f... |
| Apr 4, 2010 | Immigration Reform And The Jobs Bill | Last month congress passed and the President signed an $18bn jobs bill "providing tax breaks for businesses that hire previously unemployed
workers and extending funding for infrastructure and transportation
projects."
While I can... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | The Startup Visa Bill Debate | I'm on vacation this week skiing with my family. I got back from the mountain yesterday afternoon, checked in on email, made a few phone calls, and took a quick look at Techmeme. I saw a headline that said "The Startup Visa Act Must Be... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | The truth about the Startup Visa | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry) recently authored an article that ran on Business Insider. The article was sensationally titled ‘The Startup Visa Act Must Be Stopped‘ and in it Pascal describes his reservations about the Startup Visa propo... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | The new startup arms race | America's future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that I've been working on for some time. I've quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Proposed Financial Regulations Could Cripple Angel Investing | In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the “too big to fail” loopholes could have some negative side effects for the angel investment community. Accor... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | A group of Silicon Valley geeks try to bring about immigration reform with the Startup Visa Act | At the end of February, Senators John Kerry (D - Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R - Indiana) introduced the Startup Visa Act of 2010, which will let immigrant entrepreneurs earn a two-year visa if they get at least $250,000 in venture capital in... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Silicon Valley Delegation To Go To D.C. To Rally Support For Startup Visa Act | The U.S. needs to be more welcoming of startup founders, no matter where they were born. But the illegal immigration debate is so politically sensitive that startup founders, who create tons of jobs, get lumped in with migrant farm workers ... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Local, national VCs back “Startup Visa” law | Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rich Lugar (R-Ind.) have proposed a new type of visa for foreign entrepreneurs that have received capital and are looking to start a company in America.
The new visa can be awarded to anyone who has raised ... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | The Startup Visa (update) | I've written about the Startup Visa movement on this blog before so many of you know what it is all about.
For those that don't, it is the idea that anyone who wants to start a business here in the US and can attract a modest amount of inve... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | The Startup Visa: Create Jobs, Get A Green Card | A bill introduced today in the Senate by Democrat John Kerry and Republican Richard Lugar proposes a new type of visa for immigrants who create startups and jobs in the U.S. A similar proposal is part of an immigration reform bill in the Ho... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Startup Visa Introduced: Is it a No-Brainer? | Foreign startups with their sights set on targeting a U.S. market will be happy to note that as of this morning, Senator John Kerry and Senator Richard Lugar introduced the Startup Visa Act in Washington. In late December we covered the det... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Startup Visa Act officially introduced in the Senate | It looks like the startup founder visa, a concept that has a lot of backing from the startup and venture community, might actually become a reality: Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar (a Democrat and a Republican, respectively) today int... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Startup Stimulus: Obama Proposes $30 Billion For Small Businesses | Earlier this week we told you how New York Times op-ed contributor and author Thomas Friedman urged President Obama to take steps to help foster a new age of innovation and entrepreneurship. Well it seems that Obama may have received that m... |
| Dec 31, 2009 | Attracting Foreign Startups: Access To U.S. Could Get Easier | It may soon be easier for foreign startup entrepreneurs to set up shop in the United States thanks to immigration reform which would create a specialized startup visa program.
The proposed program would make more visas available to entrepre... |
| Dec 5, 2009 | The Startup Visa And Why The Xenophobes Need To Go Back Into Their Caves | Every time I publish a research paper on immigration or write an article for BusinessWeek or TechCrunch, the xenophobes rush out of their caves to launch mindless attacks. They fill the comment sections with bile, send me nasty emails and s... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement | Anyone familiar with internet startup culture knows how little capital it takes to start a tech company these days. With hardware and software costs practically nonexistent for most new companies, the main determinant of whether a promising... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Entrepreneur Stuck In Canada Highlights The Need For A Startup Visa Now | I’ve publicly thrown my support behind the idea of a startup founders’ visa that makes it much easier for foreign skilled workers who want to come to the US to start companies and create jobs to do so. Right now, our immigration policies do... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | My story and support for the Founders Visa |
In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator, who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. Brad Feld (B... |
| Sep 23, 2009 | Startup Visas | I'm in London for Seedcamp 2009 and I've been spending the day with entrepreneurs and technologists from all over europe. It's a reminder that the world is full of great entrepreneurs and technologists.
I started my day in a board meeting w... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | GeeksOnAPlane Gets Political in DC | It would seem that tech startup culture – which extols the virtues of agility, cost-efficiency and risk-taking – should make strange bedfellow with the staid, inefficient, and downright corporate practice of federal governance that’s conduc... |
| Канада предложит стартаперам визы | Агентство по гражданству и иммиграции Канады совместно с канадской Ассоциацией венчурного капитала одобрили внедрение так называемых Start-Up Visa - виз, предназначенных для желающих открыть собственный бизнес в Канаде. По мнению властей та... |
| Куда стартаперу из Украины податься счастья искать: США, Канада или Израиль? | Куда стартаперу из Украины податься счастья искать: США, Канада или Израиль?
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