Comments on: Immigration and Economic Growth http://www.michiganfuture.org/01/2010/immigration-and-economic-growth/ Creating a Prosperous Michigan Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:55:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cna training http://www.michiganfuture.org/01/2010/immigration-and-economic-growth/comment-page-1/#comment-211 cna training Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:05:13 +0000 http://www.michiganfuture.org/?p=714#comment-211 nice post. thanks. nice post. thanks.

]]> By: Dug Song http://www.michiganfuture.org/01/2010/immigration-and-economic-growth/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Dug Song Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:03:50 +0000 http://www.michiganfuture.org/?p=714#comment-204 My second UM tech transfer startup in Ann Arbor, Zattoo, had Indonesian, mainland Chinese, and Swiss founders, with Russian/Australian, Korean, and Malaysian UM alumni and remote engineers in France and Spain, growing our Internet TV service from 400k to over 5 million subscribers across 8 countries in Europe. And we were the first company to legally broadcast the American ABC television network outside the US. :-) We need to build strong Michigan companies for the global market. Immigrants go where there is opportunity, but to many, it's unclear what unique opportunity exists in Michigan. Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html) suggested to me last year that Michigan ought to find a way to secure visas for immigrant startup founders, as Singapore has done quite successfully. This idea has blossomed into a movement, supported by venture capitalists across the country: http://startupvisa.com/ I travelled with several investors and entrepreneurs to Tokyo, Shanghai, and Beijing last year (http://geeksonaplane.com), where the startup community in some of these cities was predominantly white expats! I met a retired American CFO who IPO'd a solar company in Shanghai, many Silicon Valley expats in Tokyo, and learned of the first South African investors in Tencent (http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG:0700). It goes both ways. My second UM tech transfer startup in Ann Arbor, Zattoo, had Indonesian, mainland Chinese, and Swiss founders, with Russian/Australian, Korean, and Malaysian UM alumni and remote engineers in France and Spain, growing our Internet TV service from 400k to over 5 million subscribers across 8 countries in Europe. And we were the first company to legally broadcast the American ABC television network outside the US. :-)

We need to build strong Michigan companies for the global market. Immigrants go where there is opportunity, but to many, it’s unclear what unique opportunity exists in Michigan.

Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html) suggested to me last year that Michigan ought to find a way to secure visas for immigrant startup founders, as Singapore has done quite successfully. This idea has blossomed into a movement, supported by venture capitalists across the country: http://startupvisa.com/

I travelled with several investors and entrepreneurs to Tokyo, Shanghai, and Beijing last year (http://geeksonaplane.com), where the startup community in some of these cities was predominantly white expats! I met a retired American CFO who IPO’d a solar company in Shanghai, many Silicon Valley expats in Tokyo, and learned of the first South African investors in Tencent (http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG:0700). It goes both ways.

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