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I think pg, bfeld, ericries, etc would all agree with these complaints about the Startup Visa as presently constituted. The people that wrote the bill structur
by pchristensen 17y ago
I think pg, bfeld, ericries, etc would all agree with these complaints about the Startup Visa as presently constituted. The people that wrote the bill structured it so that it would be easy to implement as a first step. It's not meant to be comprehensive, it is a tweak to an existing visa class that's not being fully utilized. But it will give immediate, positive results that can be used to push a more effective, fair, etc version later.
Hacking Washington isn't the same as hacking computers.
- philwelch 17y agoSo the legislative approach is to put something out there as quickly as possible and then iterate on it? Fitting.
- plinkplonk 17y agolegislation and quick iteration don't go together.
- patrickk 17y agoThe thing is, iterating on the legislation may not be possible. If you are a smart, clued-in high tech founder who isn't completely in love with your initial vision, then it's possible to iterate from a potentially disastrous idea into something people will pay for. With the Startup Visa Act, if the initial flawed piece of legislation doesn't produce some notable successes, then unimaginative lawmen who didn't like the idea in the first place will point to the initial lack of results and kill off any hope of iteration number two or three - which may be what in fact is necessary for the Act to succeed in achieving it's original aims.
- pchristensen 17y agoNot iterate - build on. And immigration reform is somewhere between health care and abortion on the "politically charged" spectrum, so a perfect, sensible solution wasn't coming anytime soon.