Young, Not Small, Businesses Drive Job Growth

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If you want to help new businesses succeed fix health care. We once lost a very valuable employee (to a Canadian firm) because we simply didn't have the cash flow to offer a health care benefit. It sucked. He stuck out as long as he could, and I completely understand his decision. The fact is, health care is extremely expensive to offer and only getting worse.

Find a way to help new businesses (who are tremendously cash strapped almost by definition) to compete sanely with the rest of the world. Do it now, politics aside.

Isn't purchasing health insurance privately cheaper than orchestrating a move to Canada?

Not if he's already a citizen.

Moving from California to BC really isn't all that expensive. It's just the rental truck and gas.

The author argues that "measures should be put in place to help start-ups learn how to avoid correctable problems."

Does anybody else think that already exists? What is one of the purposes of HN, anyways? :)

I think this is best done at the local level. Cities should be bending over backwards to find ways to help new businesses succeed in their city. I know New Orleans is doing a lot in this regard (although I'm not terribly familiar with the specifics). I'd love to see my home-city of Denver really step up to the plate on this.

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