Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by tim333 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:09PM (#11309363)

They could do with a startup founder visa really. Maybe allow people to hang out and launch companies for a year or 2 and allow conversion to a long term visa if they employ a few Americans. Bit like a relaxed version of the E2 visa.

Edit - I read to the bottom of the article and see they tried to bring something like that in with the "EB-JOBS Act of 2015" which didn't get through the political system.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by jbotttt on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:15PM (#11309391)

This already exists in the EB-5 visa[0] assuming you start with .5 million funding. You get to stay forever too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by NhanH on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:20PM (#11309417)

EB-5 visa requires $1 million funding. .5 million is for "Targeted Employment Area", which is basically area with bad economy, you really don't want to start a startup there.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by tim333 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:35PM (#11309474)

The trouble is most startup founders don't have $500k lying around.

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