Eighteen150 A residence program for solo immigrant founders

One of the H1B visa requirements is a "employee-employer relationship," which means that a) someone has the authority to hire or fire you from your company, and b) the company should continue if you are fired (i.e. not go bankrupt, and other individuals can fill your function).

Does this imply that the investment firm will have greater power over the company than an immigrant founder?

Does this program provide help with health insurance?

Coming to the USA from the UK the health insurance system here was utterly baffling and terrifying. It was OK for the first few years because I had an employer to sort it out, but jumping straight into a startup in a new country while needing to sort out health insurance would not be a pleasant experience.

Very cool! For people on visa who might be interested in founding, someone told me about this lately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_entrepreneur_rul...

The requirements are that you raise 250k+ though, but that's the size of a decent seed round these days.

Without knowing any details, I think it's a neat idea. Terrible name. Hard to remember, hard to spell, doesn't explain itself, and depends on numbers that will presumably change over time (at least one of them will, anyway).

I've followed Unshackled for some time, but as a solo founder the funding offered seemed out of reach. It's impressive that you have established a special program catering to solo founders, which often rules out some really good ideas/businesses.

Interesting example founders. Looks like you need to have been at the right university.