I'm the founder of an early-stage company seeking to establish an office in Phoenix, Arizona. My situation has specific immigration complexities I hope you can maybe give some pointers on.

My spouse is currently subject to a 10-year bar from entering the United States due to an overstay....

We are exploring a hardship waiver (I-601/I-601A) but finding the process challenging while simultaneously managing my business responsibilities. I've been considering various visa pathways including TN, H-1B, and have begun the I-130 petition process for my spouse. Given these circumstances:

What strategies would you recommend for addressing my spouse's admissibility issues most effectively? Are there particular hardship waiver approaches that have proven successful in similar entrepreneurial situations? Could you advise on the comparative benefits of different visa pathways in our specific case? Are there any specialized resources or professionals with expertise in cases combining entrepreneurship with complex inadmissibility issues?

Would love to see this for more topics, like products people are working on

watched that node documentary recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0) and was surprised to see familiar faces like @Rauch on early node google groups. now twitter is just ai and teens and getting annoying.

saw this article about mailing lists (https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/) and got me thinking. seems like all the good ideas are stuck in these walled gardens now - mastodon, twitter, github discussions, farcaster channels, etc. not only is it politically siloed, but places like discord/slack are just totally underindexed.

what happened to google groups? do ppl miss it? are there any real open alternatives? whos working on this stuff?

where's the serious, nuanced work happening in 2024 and beyond? explain whats going on to someone to young to be born into what seemed like a more vibrant era of google groups and usenet.

google groups seems to have turned into some admin tool for GCP rather than a place for real discussions. anyone else feeling this or am i just being nostalgic for something i never even experienced lol

thoughts? experiences? where do you all go for the good stuff these days?

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Super cool! Would love to see an OSS implementation

We could use this. We have lots of carriers and this could make life much easier.

But yes, the opportunity cost is super high. Either way, if you're going to be an entrepreneur you'll figure out a way. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/lang-upload/launching...

The point being that great entrepreneurs can repeatedly find problems to solve and create value from.

For example, the author of this article was a successful entrepreneur in his own right. "Previously, the Chief Executive Officer of The Tie Bar - the #1 e-commerce destination for stylish men's accessories. Prior to The Tie Bar, Alter was a co-founder and President/CEO of SurePayroll, a SaaS technology company that is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Paychex®. Alter co-founded SurePayroll in 2000 after six years with McKinsey and Company, where he was a co-founder and leader of its Service Operations Practice."

The mention of Steve Blank's methodology is interesting. The best work I've seen done on this phenomena of customer-value-driven entrepreneurship is from https://www.effectuation.org/....basically that entrepreneurs start with what they have and the problems they know and go from there.

The counterargument is the Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerburg argument for having a concrete vision and stopping at nothing to achieve a goal. But let's not forget that Apple started selling the Apple I which was primarily for hobbyists, and the Apple II didn't blow up until spreadsheets came out. Zuck was about to dedicate as many resources to Wirehog as he was to Facebook in the early days. Not to mention YouTube started as a dating site and many more classic examples of entrepreneurs having to figure it out as they go along.

I wonder what Keith Rabois would have to say to this. He has an interesting perspective in that he thinks founders will their companies into existence with clear visions that are often unwavering, and doesn't believe in the "lean" approach to building companies. Interestingly enough, Khosla where Keith worked earlier is the namesake of Vinod Khosla who does like the Effectual model of entrepreneurship (which is basically "lean" customer development based entrepreneurship). Another interesting thing to note is that most academic research into the age-old management question of what makes a good entrepreneur has far more to do with an individual's unique approach and perspective in the world, than it has to do with technology. Very few researchers are looking into "technology driven entrepreneurship" as much as they are personality, disposition, persuasion techniques, idea generation techniques, macroeconomic factors. This might change, but if anything when researchers look at entrepreneurial skill, technology skills are not the main focus. Again, this may be changing.

Personally, I think the only type of entrepreneurship that makes sense is very bottoms up. Look at the U-Haul story. The founder of that company simply did things none of his competitors would do because they thought it too risky.

Plaid used to publish https://blog.plaid.com/rfs/ but they stopped this year.

Truepill is an API for pharmacies that is doing seriously well and is under-hyped. The API-ification of things is a serious boon for developers everywhere.

But financial services (payments) and travel are just two verticals. There are vertical software solutions in healthcare, other aspects of FinTech (lending/wealth management), retail that can probably be re-vamped.

The question is what other legacy providers other than Authorize.net/Sabre exist. Where do we find software solutions like this?

Sabre does 3.87B in revenue and Duffel is just re-inventing Sabre with a better suite of APIs. What other legacy enterprise, vertical software solutions exist that people could "Duffel?"

Hearing aids are similar as mentioned on the thread.

Wondering what other industries have these structurally integrated industries where a disruptor could deliver a tremendous amount of value with insider Knowledge or reintegrating a supply chain. I believe an original Warby team member worked in the eyewear industry.

I have a feeling things like Car Dealerships are next. You fundamentally have to be able to drive massive value to consumers by making a one time purchase expneisve good cheaper with an innovative business model.

Also, a lot of students I know would be interested in learning more about bookandledger - do you have 40 minutes to give a talk about the new co. and your past experiences?

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