The Founder Visa

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</td > --> April 2009 I usually avoid politics, but since we now seem to have an administration that's open to suggestions, I'm going to risk making one.

</td> --> 2009 年 4 月 我通常会回避政治，但由于我们现在的政府似乎对建议持开放态度，我将冒险提出一个建议。

The single biggest thing the government could do to increase the number of startups in this country is a policy that would cost nothing: establish a new class of visa for startup founders .

为了增加这个国家的初创企业数量，政府可以做的最重要的事情就是一项无需花费任何成本的政策：为初创企业创始人设立一类新的签证。

The biggest constraint on the number of new startups that get created in the US is not tax policy or employment law or even Sarbanes-Oxley.

美国新创业公司数量的最大限制不是税收政策或就业法，甚至不是萨班斯-奥克斯利法案。

It's that we won't let the people who want to start them into the country.

而是我们不会让想要创业的人进入这个国家。

Letting just 10,000 startup founders into the country each year could have a visible effect on the economy.

每年只允许 10,000 名初创公司创始人进入该国可能会对经济产生明显的影响。

If we assume 4 people per startup, which is probably an overestimate, that's 2500 new companies.

如果我们假设每家初创公司有 4 个人（这可能是高估了），那就是 2500 家新公司。

Each year.

每年。

They wouldn't all grow as big as Google, but out of 2500 some would come close.

它们不会都发展得像谷歌那么大，但在 2500 家中，有些会接近谷歌。

By definition these 10,000 founders wouldn't be taking jobs from Americans: it could be part of the terms of the visa that they couldn't work for existing companies, only new ones they'd founded.

根据定义，这 10,000 名创始人不会抢走美国人的工作：这可能是签证条款的一部分，他们不能为现有公司工作，只能为他们创立的新公司工作。

In fact they'd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew.

事实上，他们会为美国人带来更多的就业机会，因为他们创办的公司随着规模的发展会雇用更多的员工。

The tricky part might seem to be how one defined a startup.

棘手的部分似乎是如何定义初创公司。

But that could be solved quite easily: let the market decide.

但这很容易解决：让市场决定。

Startup investors work hard to find the best startups.

初创公司投资者努力寻找最好的初创公司。

The government could not do better than to piggyback on their expertise, and use investment by recognized startup investors as the test of whether a company was a real startup.

政府最好的办法就是利用他们的专业知识，并利用公认的初创投资者的投资来测试一家公司是否是真正的初创公司。

How would the government decide who's a startup investor?

政府将如何决定谁是初创企业投资者？

The same way they decide what counts as a university for student visas.

他们以同样的方式决定什么算作学生签证的大学。

We'll establish our own accreditation procedure.

我们将建立我们自己的认证程序。

We know who one another are.

我们知道彼此是谁。

10,000 people is a drop in the bucket by immigration standards, but would represent a huge increase in the pool of startup founders.

按照移民标准来看，10,000 人只是九牛一毛，但却代表了初创企业创始人数量的巨大增长。

I think this would have such a visible effect on the economy that it would make the legislator who introduced the bill famous.

我认为这将对经济产生如此明显的影响，以至于使提出该法案的立法者出名。

The only way to know for sure would be to try it, and that would cost practically nothing.

唯一能确定的方法就是尝试一下，而这几乎不需要花费任何成本。

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Paul Buchheit, Jeff Clavier, David Hornik, Jessica Livingston, Greg Mcadoo, Aydin Senkut, and Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this.

感谢 Trevor Blackwell、Paul Buchheit、Jeff Clavier、David Hornik、Jessica Livingston、Greg Mcadoo、Aydin Senkut 和 Fred Wilson 阅读本文的草稿。

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