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turbod | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: legally start a Bay Area startup without being American?

Hi, I've been in the same shoes as you.

As far as your options: having an American co-founder or business agent is a good start.

However, regardless of what option you choose to pursue to enter the US as a Canadian, I would recommend if you are bootstrapping your own venture, that it would be best to get to profitability or at least a promising product before exploring your options for working and living in California. It is not only expensive, but very time consuming to work out the details. It's definitely worth all the trouble, but focus on your company and product first.

I hope it works out for you.

turbod | 17 years ago | on: Is Spatial Ability the "Geek Gene"?

Can anyone recommend resources / activities to improve spatial visualization abilities? I would think this would help everyone become a better critical thinker. Thanks.

turbod | 17 years ago | on: One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree

Eric Schmidt has a PhD in EE/CS.

turbod | 17 years ago | on: Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit

Let's hope this never happens again... Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children.

turbod | 17 years ago | on: You can now build apps for Yahoo mail without plugins (let's hope gmail is next?)

It's probably true that Gmail has this on their roadmap. I would recommend those who aren't already building a product to create something on Yahoo and see which ones are "hits" and be ready to port to Gmail asap. Good luck, this is a great opportunity.

turbod | 17 years ago | on: How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?

difficult

turbod | 17 years ago | on: Mixwit (YC W08) shuts down

Will be interesting to see what the founders will come up with next... "We’ll return early next year with a new company and new toys."

turbod | 17 years ago | on: Reverse Engineering "Marketing"

Summary, verbatim from the article:

In this light, marketing cannot be an afterthought of a good product. Marketing defines a good product.

Good Marketing -> Good Product.

Bad Marketing -> Bad Product.

It's that simple.