I think that the rules of this startup visa made perfect sense for the venture capital people who were pushing it. The rules basically boil down to, If a VC thinks that so and so has a good enough shot at a business that we want to fund him, don't make immigration a barrier.

It was never intended as a path for large numbers of good people to immigrate to the USA, and so makes no sense for that. It was just meant to get government out of the way of people who are likely to generate jobs here.