Seems like a shot across the bow of their Southern neighbors. The US needs to get our act in gear. Vancouver and Toronto are already world class cities.
Canada's Start-up Visa
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#22If anyone is doing a story on this I have photos from the announcement that are CC released :)
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#23I would rather have temporary worker visas for startup employees. Our biggest labor problem has been the difficulty of getting programmers who didn't go to college into the US. We'd move to Canada in a heartbeat if we could get the developers we wanted colocated with us.
How about N temporary worker visas/amount of VC funding?
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#24The conditional on Canadian funding thing is killer. There is so little VC in Canada.
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#25looks great - does any one here have any experience with any of the listed VCs/Angels? I can only spot 1-2 familiar names..
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#26The canadian "citizen and immigration" service is seriously understaffed (thanks, Mr. Harper!). Some consequences of this:
* It currently takes more than two years in average to process a citizenship request.
* The CIC stopped accepting any new application from canadian citizens or permanent residents to sponsor their parents or grandparents for permanent residency.
So, this all sounds good in paper, but Im skeptical about how well it will work in reality.
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#27I would rather have temporary worker visas for startup employees. Our biggest labor problem has been the difficulty of getting programmers who didn't go to college into the US. We'd move to Canada in a heartbeat if we could get the developers we wanted colocated with us. How about N temporary worker visas/amount of VC funding?
Having lived in numerous countries as a foreign programmer (neither from the U.S or Canada), I can assure you that it is significantly easier to move to Canada than the U.S. Their highly skilled migrant program is a lot more friendly to... highly skilled migrants. In fact, most countries are.
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#28Summary of the conditions: - Secure $75k in angel funding or $200k in venture funding, from a list of designated Canadian funders. - Score relatively highly on a language test in either English or French, for both verbal and written ability (note that everyone must take this test, even those coming from English- or French-speaking countries). - Have satisfactorily completed at least one year of higher education (no d…
It's canadian dollars, right?
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#29Summary of the conditions: - Secure $75k in angel funding or $200k in venture funding, from a list of designated Canadian funders. - Score relatively highly on a language test in either English or French, for both verbal and written ability (note that everyone must take this test, even those coming from English- or French-speaking countries). - Have satisfactorily completed at least one year of higher education (no d…
I'd say that this is actually pretty reasonable, especially if they'll consider your retirements account towards the $11K-30K reserves.
Almost anyone can be a founder in Canada now. Congrats Canada!
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#30i know that business taxes are relatively low, but what about personal incomes taxes? how will this affect having to pay double taxes (both us and canada). i believe you can write off the taxes you pay overseas, but you have to pay the difference in us taxes.