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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
What notable startups have come out of silicon valley in the last 10years? It's been a long time since HP, Apple, Sun appeared - a few people with a high traffic no income social web site doesn't make an industry however many $M/Bn it's not
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
No not in this case - but the visa is intended to start growth business, not just for people to hire a maid, pool boy and gardener and get a resident visa.
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
I worked for a european company that had a US sales office. It employed a receptionist and a US sales guy. If we added a cleaner the owner of the company now gets a US passport - was that what was intended? As it happens the owner currently
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
Depends on what you mean by 'rich' - $1M, $10M, $1Bn ? There have been classes of investment visa for people bringing $1M into the country. But then people simply used it to buy a house = $1M in some areas. So then there were requirements t
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
I think the difference is that Japanese disruptive firms can engineer things like planes, ships, cars - US disruptive firms enable you to play games about birds on your cell phone.
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
It's because of the intense competition between Canada's phone providers. Unfortunately the intense competition is limited to the golf course - the rest of the time they are free to fix charges, limit services and ensure that their friends
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
>only about my contacts So Alice has to install Google talk to call you, skype to call Bob and SIP to talk to Carol Meanwhile Bob has microsoft phone to talk to ....
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
It's going to hit Vancouver - the place is currently full of startup people that couldn't get US visas
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
It's still mind-blowing to me that a politician could read!
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by tghnjtghn 16y ago
Most of the monetary requirements are to stop scams - ie where millionaire's kid bills family company abroad for $100K and gets to stay in the US running his company. It's also the reason for requiring qualified investors - to stop this ju