Silicon Valley

[Poil à gratter]

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Bon, ce n'est pas grand chose encore, mais la Silicon Valley ne serait-elle pas entrée dans une phase de déclin relatif ?

Ici comme ailleurs, même causes, même conséquences : des impôts qui augmentent pour tenter de combler les trous abyssaux qui se sont formés dans les budget de l'administration, et des entreprises commencent à se faire la malle ou envisager de se faire la malle. Ajoutez à cela une politique de visas de travail de plus en plus restrictive qui fait que les entrepreneurs ne peuvent même pas recruter.

Vous en pensez quoi ? Petit hoquet qui sera vite oublié ou début de maladie chronique ?

[john_ross]

Silicon Prairie power.

[Chitah]

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/startupvisa.html

Some huge percentage of startup companies in this country are founded by immigrants. Not surprising. It has always been that way in America. But in the wake of 9/11, we've shut our borders and become intolerant of people from other cultures. Over time that will result in the sclerosis of our economy and the decline of america as the locus of capitalism and the american dream.

Last year, right after our firm and one other VC firm invested $3mm into one of our portfolio companies, the founder was forced to leave the country because his visa ran out. The jobs that $3mm were intended to fund didn't get created. The innovation the company was working on was delayed. Is that good policy? No it is not.

The startup visa movement was born out of frustration over stories like this and thousands of other similar ones. The premise of the startup visa is simple. If an entrepreneur can get funding to start a business in this country, he or she should be able to get a visa. Creating companies and jobs is a patriotic act and should be rewarded by legal status. The logic behind these ideas is irrefutable. But over the past year, the startup visa movement has run into a series of roadblocks. Politcs and goverment has a way of turning good ideas to mush.

Personnellement j'ai confiance dans la capacité de rebond de la Silicon Valley. Ce n'est pas juste un lieu, un pays de cocagne, c'est aussi et surtout une liste énorme de gens de qualité, dans tous les domaines, du droit à l'innovation en passant par le financement et le management.