Night with a Futurist: The Stealing Jobs from Foreign Countries Act

On average, Brad Feld comes across at least one foreign entrepreneur every week who is struggling to stay in the U.S. and build a company here. Over the past year alone, he's uncovered several hundred of these passionate people, representing thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of new jobs (and who knows how much innovative).

According to Brad, "Along with some others, I’ve been trying to get something called The Startup Visa Act passed in Congress and turned into law. The biggest thing to come out of it for me personally has been a deep understanding of how the process of an idea to bill to law works. After two years of advocating for this, there is extremely broad support throughout Congress for this concept and it has been written into many of the job creation / startup type bills that are out there. But – nothing has been passed."

Every day that passes, we are missing a huge opportunity in this country by making it too hard for non-US citizens to stay and build their high growth entrepreneurial companies. 

So what should be done to solve this problem?

Join us as Brad steps us through the issues and leads a discussion on the uncertainties in the visa process that foreign entrepreneurs face when considering relocating their startups to the US, as well as steps that are being taken to make it easier to allow foreign jobs to come to this country and help restore our job market.

Join us for this FREE event with FREE beer.

EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: November 5, 2012 - Monday
TIME: 6:30pm-8:30pm
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/628/night-with-a-futurist-monday-november--5-2012

LOCATION: DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027

COST: Free

PHONE: 303-666-4133

TOPIC: The Stealing Jobs from Foreign Countries Act
SPEAKER: Brad Feld, Co-founder Foundry Group