Immigrant entrepreneur creates 9 jobs, get kicked out of US

Re:Immigrant entrepreneur creates 9 jobs, get kicked out of US by mgkimsal on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:27AM (#3192202)

Sounds like if the goals are acquisition and quick payouts, the place to be is SV. However, you indicated that the company in Idaho was better run or had a better product. Isn't that better for the end users in the long run? Wouldn't that indicate there's a better chance of a company staying around for the long haul and providing better service and what not?

Wouldn't be surprising at all if your competitor that was acquired was absorbed or shut down within a year. For the founders - sure, that's success - they had an exit. But how is this necessarily good for the long term economics of those businesses?

The original video story on this talked about all the jobs that 'high tech entrepreneurs' create. But how long do those jobs last? Sure, there's no such thing as a 30 year job for most people any more, but isn't this type of behaviour contributing or accelerating this trend?

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Re:Immigrant entrepreneur creates 9 jobs, get kicked out of US by Zimahl on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:41AM (#3192252)

True, the main goal wasn't necessarily getting acquired, although typically that's what you expect to happen with a lot of tech startups. To get big we would've had to change direction (which wouldn't have been a bad idea).

Whether or not we were to get acquired, it was just tough to find quality employees and the money to pay them until sales went into the black. It took about 3 years to become solvent and even then that did help luring good programmers to Idaho.

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