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Personally, I think that a good compromise is for foreign devs to become technical co-founders with others who are based in SV. The issue is that all the devs
by phlux 16y ago
Personally, I think that a good compromise is for foreign devs to become technical co-founders with others who are based in SV.
The issue is that all the devs here have a great job market to pick from - and there are a ton of startups looking for technical folks who cant compete with BigCo for devs.
Further, there is so much energy (money, interest, thought, etc) flowing in the startup space right now. Get into/form a company here - build an MVP, get funding, sponsor your own visa or at least regular visits (trust me, the living costs are really high here).
I know I am looking to connect with people.
- turar 16y agoThis is nearly impossible with current US immigration laws. You can be a founder of the company (i.e. an investor), but you cannot legally work for the company, or you violate your visitor immigration status.
- phlux 16y agoCan the company license the code from you for a monthly license fee (Annual license fee + support and maintenance (e.g. beenfits) / into monthly mapyments)
- turar 16y agoI suppose it can, but the code would have to be written prior to that and/or outside the US. The bottom line is that you can't work for money in the US, whether for yourself or somebody else, if you don't have a proper work visa. And you can't get a proper work visa, unless a company sponsors it for you. And you can't sponsor your own work visa.
- phlux 16y agoOf course the code was written prior, it says so right there in the comments ###Copyright 2009 Not-working-for-money-in-the-us
- ig1 16y agoNot convinced that's true, what's the reasoning that your own company can't sponsor your visa ?
- turar 16y agohttp://www.quora.com/Can-a-H1B-holder-work-for-a-startup-as-a-co-founder http://www.quora.com/Can-a-H1B-holder-work-for-a-startup-as-...
- ig1 16y agoThat would only seem to apply in the case where you own the majority of the company, so it wouldn't seem to apply to cases where >2 co-founders or 2 co-founders + investors exist.