Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

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Post by dankohn1 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:27 PM UTC

Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
blogs.wsj.com

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Post by dankohn1 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:30 PM UTC

I appreciate Matt Yglesias's snarky tweet[0]: "Depriving Americans of valuable founder opportunities". The lump of unicorns fallacy is a nice update to the lump of labor fallacy [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/841305139440959488 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Re: Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

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Post by dominotw » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:55 PM UTC

Thwarted by paywall but why does there need to be a "study" on this? Can't you just gather this info from govt databases?

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Post by awt » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:55 PM UTC

I wonder if this is true in China and Japan as well.

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Post by jws » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:56 PM UTC

A link to the study for those without WSJ subscriptions: http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi... [PDF]

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Post by BanzaiTokyo » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:57 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #3

Thwarted by paywall but why does there need to be a "study" on this? Can't you just gather this info from govt databases?

that's what is called "a study"

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Post by nerdponx » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:59 PM UTC

What percentage of all startups are founded by immigrants? If it's on the order of 51%, you can't rule out the possibility that this number just reflects the base occurrence rate of immigrants in the "population" of all startup founders.

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Post by that_guy1 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:59 PM UTC

And the amoutn of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups founded by illegal immigrants?

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Post by Waterluvian » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:59 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #3

Thwarted by paywall but why does there need to be a "study" on this? Can't you just gather this info from govt databases?

'study' doesn't always mean collecting primary data.

Re: Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

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Post by Cuuugi » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC

Whenever I see "Immigration" in the title, i think anti-Trump and get sad.

No one is trying to stop legal immigration.

Tech companies are mad because they are cracking down on H1-B Visa abuse. This is not a bad thing.