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Re:Let's Give Visas to Startup Founders by wheels on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:49PM (#973403)
If you've got somebody willing to wire you $500k, you can basically do that already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa

Re:Let's Give Visas to Startup Founders by neilc on Thursday December 03, 2009 @01:38AM (#973858)
Well, that requires that you leave the country immediately after the business has been concluded; this proposal says that "... the founder would be granted a permanent resident visa", which presumably wouldn't expire.