U.S. immigration chief getting serious about startups & immigrant entrepreneurs (exclusive)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director Alejandro Mayorkas is getting serious about creating reforms that would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to settle in the US.
A group of VCs, academics and thought leaders recently petitioned Mayorkas about the roadblocks to foreigners creating startups in the United States.
To their surprise, Mayorkas responded immediately and quite positively, asking for more advice and promising swift action to welcome more foreign entrepreneurs.
Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur, … Continue Reading
Want to grow innovation? Fix immigration
As movements such the startup visa program continue to gain steam in Washington, the CTO of the United States is joining the call. Aneesh Chopra, in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University, says the key to fixing the decreased flow of innovation in this country is to fix the nation’s broken immigration system. Chopra offers his personal perspective on the issue, noting that his father was an engineer who immigrated to America … Continue Reading
Week in review: Outages at Sony's PlayStation Network, Amazon, and Verizon
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
In fourth day of outage, Sony says it is beefing up PlayStation Network security — It was a big week for outages at a number of online services. Sony’s PlayStation Network went down for several days, and the company said it would improve security as it worked to rebuild the system.
Possible iPhone … Continue Reading
America is bleeding competitiveness
With anti-immigrant sentiment building across the nation, and clouds of nativism swirling around Washington, D.C., skilled immigrants are voting with their feet. They are returning home to countries like India and China. It’s not just the people we are denying visas to who are leaving; even U.S. permanent residents and naturalized citizens are going to where they think the grass is greener. As a result, India and China are experiencing an entrepreneurship boom. And they … Continue Reading
Startup Visa: It’s time to wake up, America…
(Editor’s note: Will Herman is an entrepreneur who has founded or held senior roles in several tech companies. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
Don’t even get me started about the sorry state of American technological and economic competitiveness and our complete ignorance of what really made the U.S. a great and growing country since its inception.
We are so caught up with balancing what is politically correct, what is politically achievable and … Continue Reading
US immigration blocks changes to workers' employment status for 2007
(Editor’s note: Will Herman is an entrepreneur who has founded or held senior roles in several tech companies. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
Don’t even get me started about the sorry state of American technological and economic competitiveness and our complete ignorance of what really made the U.S. a great and growing country since its inception.
We are so caught up with balancing what is politically correct, what is politically achievable and … Continue Reading
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