Problem is these are anecdotal jobs, not statistically significant ones. ;-)
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Mike Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not apropos of recent discussion but relevant to our putative topic: > > > NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw visited Silicon Valley last > month to meet immigrant entrepreneurs. At Microsoft's Mountain > View campus, he met with a dozen of them. More than half said that > they might be forced to return to their home countries. That's > because they have the same visa issues that Kunal Bahl had. Unable > to get a visa that would allow him to start a company after he > graduated from Wharton in 2007, Kunal returned home to India. In > February 2010, he started SnapDeal -- India's Groupon. Instead of > creating hundreds of jobs in the U.S., Kunal ended up creating > them in New Delhi. > > At a time when our economy is stagnating, some American political > leaders are working to keep the world's best and brightest > out. They mistakenly believe that skilled immigrants take American > jobs away. The opposite is true: skilled immigrants start the > majority of Silicon Valley startups; they create jobs. > > [snip] > > Michelle Zatlyn, a Canadian who founded Cloudflare (a TechCrunch > Disrupt runner-up), said that American visa policies are very > outdated and do not "promote entrepreneurship in this country at > all". She told Brokaw that her startup was trying to create jobs > and hire engineers, but that the country had almost made her leave > before she had an opportunity to build a company. > > [snip] > > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/why-silicon-valley-immigrant-entrepreneurs-are-returning-home/ > > or if you trust URL-shortening servers: http://j.mp/f8DdjQ > > [ Yo, Ms. Zatlyn. Whyncha come back to Canada? NS gots lotsa > [ well-trained (some even well-educated) techie types like to do yer > [ stuff. Unless you already got filthy rich, you can buy a nice big > [ house here for 1/20 what you pay there. > > > - Mike > > > PS: I have a friend in Marblehead, Mass, who bought a crappy little > house in the 70s for not very much. Now, well maintained but only > slightly upgraded, it's worth over a million bucks. She'd like to > move to the San Francisco Bay area but wouldn't be able to afford > a comparable dwelling there on a mere $mil. > > -- > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. > /V\ > [email protected] /( )\ > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > -- Sandwichman
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