I sympathize with you as much as anyone can who's not in your exact situation. The new law stinks, and unfortunately, a lot of finance-related startups aren't a

I sympathize with you as much as anyone can who's not in your exact situation. The new law stinks, and unfortunately, a lot of finance-related startups aren't affected by it because they've already come up with workarounds for this kind of thing. (BankSimple, for example, just provides a software interface; funds are managed through a regular banking institution.) However, I'd like to second the notion of taking your ball and going elsewhere, even if it means opening up some kind of satellite office. Why not another country? Chile, for example, has been getting lots of press lately for being startup friendly. They'd probably love to have your product down there. Yes, it's a smaller, more limited market, but so what? You'd have the opportunity to get in to an untapped market with a product that already works. You could keep pumping the product into the U.S. press in the meantime with an angle that editors will love to run because it'll sell copies faster than hotcakes: U.S. innovation is moving to other countries because of stifling laws. (Regardless of your opinion of that point of view, the fact is that it's one that sells magazines and other print publications right now.) In all seriousness, in your situation, it's what I'd do. In Go parlance, right now you're trying to defend from a weak position. Give up that territory now, before you're any more invested in it, and focus on building a strong position elsewhere on the board, and then attacking from there. And you could still continue U.S. operations on other products and projects. You, personally, wouldn't need to relocate. With your track record, you'd be a shoe-in for Startup Chile, which would mean you'd get access to a small amount of capital ($40k IIRC) and all kinds of help during their next application round. As far as the Valley goes -- well, fuck 'em. The scene in the Valley is entirely self-interested; if its revenues aren't directly affected by something, it just doesn't care. Getting pissed off at the situation, while certainly understandable, won't help you to think more clearly about it. Consider all your other options, even ones you would ordinarily dismiss.