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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by pclark »

loevborg wrote: post #17
pkrumins wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Went on a B1 visa "to raise investment for StackVM", which took 15 minutes to get.

As a fellow EU citizen, I'm interested in this. Could you elaborate? Are you able to found or work at a start up in the U.S. with only a temporary visa?

You're allowed to found a company in the US - just not work for it nor be paid by it. The B1 is a 3-6 month visa, most people just use the visa waiver program.

Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by fabiandesimone »

loevborg wrote: post #17
pkrumins wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Went on a B1 visa "to raise investment for StackVM", which took 15 minutes to get.

As a fellow EU citizen, I'm interested in this. Could you elaborate? Are you able to found or work at a start up in the U.S. with only a temporary visa?

Please do elaborate on this

Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by pkrumins »

loevborg wrote: post #17
pkrumins wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Went on a B1 visa "to raise investment for StackVM", which took 15 minutes to get.

As a fellow EU citizen, I'm interested in this. Could you elaborate? Are you able to found or work at a start up in the U.S. with only a temporary visa?

You can't do that with temporary visa. That's why I have my awesome co-founder James Halliday, who's US citizen. :)

Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by bprater »

Check out their startup: http://browserling.com/

It allows you to not just get a screenshot of the site you are working on in a variety of browsers, but you can actually navigate the site, click on links, enter text, etc. Impressive!

For designers/developers who need big coverage on browsers, I suspect they are going to do strong business.

I think the $20 pricing might be a bit high, but the 5 minutes free should help a bunch of folks.

Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by derwiki »

david927 wrote: post #15

I knew of each of you separately and have long thought you are brilliant. (How YC passed on you I'll never know.) I'm really happy to hear you're funded and going. Best of luck!

Miss for YC, big win for the Hackers and Founders incubator. Browserling was the start up I was most excited about on Not-a-Demo Day, in part because all of their business cards were hand drawn and ripped from sheets of paper and their browser logo cutouts were made from cereal boxes.

Re: Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

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Post by pkrumins »

bprater wrote: post #26

Check out their startup: http://browserling.com/ It allows you to not just get a screenshot of the site you are working on in a variety of browsers, but you can actually navigate the site, click on links, enter text, etc. Impressive! For designers/developers who need big coverage on browsers, I suspect they are going to do strong business. I think the $20 pricing might be a bit high, but the 5 minutes free should hel…

Yeah, the browsers run on Windowses and we stream the desktop to the browser!

$20 also gets you tunnels, so you can tunnel localhost or local network to Browserling. Not available in the free plans!

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