US Visas for Venture-Backed Immigrant Entrepreneurs
December 13th, 2009
Scott Shane supports a startup visa program. But he urges fellow proponents to rethink the arguments they’re using to justify it
By Scott Shane – Businessweek.com
Myth: Immigrants need to be better entrepreneurs than native-born entrepreneurs to justify a startup visa program.
Reality: Recently several influential people advocated a program to grant visas to foreign-born entrepreneurs interested in starting high potential businesses in the U.S. Last week Paul Kedrosky of the Kauffman Foundation and Brad Feld of the Foundry Group wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, and entrepreneur turned academic Vivek Wadhwa also wrote a Bloomberg BusinessWeek opinion column to support such a program…
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Scott Shane supports a startup visa program. But he urges fellow proponents to rethink the arguments they’re using to justify it
By Scott Shane – Businessweek.com
Myth: Immigrants need to be better entrepreneurs than native-born entrepreneurs to justify a startup visa program.
Reality: Recently several influential people advocated a program to grant visas to foreign-born entrepreneurs interested in starting high potential businesses in the U.S. Last week Paul Kedrosky of the Kauffman Foundation and Brad Feld of the Foundry Group wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, and entrepreneur turned academic Vivek Wadhwa also wrote a Bloomberg BusinessWeek opinion column to support such a program…
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