Startup Visa: More Startups. More Jobs.

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24 points·iamelgringo··8 comments

Votizen is doing something awesome. They are setting up a platform for people to be able to tweet or text their support of a political issue, and if you're a registered voter, those tweets and IM's get hand delivered to your representative and senators.

Their first big push is about the startup visa. I feel strongly about this because of all the amazing startups I see at Hackers & Founders struggle with visa issues.

We'd love your support.

Great issue for the first push, too, this is one that pretty much all of the technerati agree on. Good luck.

The bill has been reintroduced in the Senate: http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e6a51f6-fb2b-4212...

If anyone's got personal stories or one-removed connections of successful startups that were driven from the US by visa problems, please send them my way via startupvisa.tumblr.com/submit

Sorry to be cynical but nothing is going to happen while Hillary Clinton is secretary of state.

Do you think we can get a couple thousand founders to promote the issue via Votizen?

Nothing is going to happen if US citizens who care about the issue don't speak up for their expat founder friends.

Agreed, gringo. If nothing is going to happen, I'm still going to make a ton of noise about it.

:) Besides, the Startup Visa is such a great hack.

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