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Ask HN: People who are / were on H1B and founded companies how'd you do it?

• pkrotich 6y ago
  Took a delayed approach... I started an open source project, that got popular, while I was on H1B (while still working)... then I monetized it / formed a formal company once I got a green card.
  • andher 6y ago
    Ah interesting. Did you have plans to monetize from the start, or was it a side-project initially? Were you aiming at growing a project to become a larger product? Tangential: How'd you decide on starting the project? Was it related to work? A tool you built out of general interest?
    • pkrotich 6y ago
      It was an experiment- scratching an itch / problem I saw at work at first. But I knew I wanted to be self employed (“entrepreneur”) since I was nine... so had the goal from the start to eventually start a company. It just so happens that doing an open source product turned out be great way to test the idea without the risk of actually starting the company from the get go.
• throwawayguy191 6y ago
  Throwaway because I'm a bit unsure. I simply registered a company using stripe atlas. Technically I don't work for the company, I just own it. It doesn't have any revenue or employees yet, but the day it starts getting serious, I'll talk to a lawyer to figure out how to transition to working under this company with some GC cofounder as the ceo probably.