Babson College will be the first private school to offer a program that helps entrepreneurs with expiring visas stay in the country. The Global Entrepreneur in Residence (GEIR) program, announced yesterday (June 15), will be run through the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and will...
Unshackled Will Offer Investment Capital to Global Entrepreneurs On Thursday, the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence (GEIR) program announced a partnership with Unshackled, an investment fund based in Palo Alto, California, backed by 80 of America's most influential investors. In a major step to retain entrepreneurial talent in...
BOSTON (AP) — He came to America on a student visa, earned a master's degree from Babson College and is now starting a new business, but Abhinav Sureka worries that he'll have to return to India. To stay, he needs an H-1B visa, a temporary...
MANY HIGH-TECH entrepreneurs dread this time of year — the annual lottery for H-1B visas is about to get underway. More than 300,000 skilled foreign workers will apply to receive one of only 85,000 of the magic tickets that allow them to take jobs in...
Two years ago, Jim O’Leary lost his bid to continue running the MBTA’s commuter railroad. But that hasn’t stopped him from expanding his transit empire. Instead of worrying about the Rockport or Franklin lines, the former Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad chairman will turn his attention...
Standing under fluorescent lights at a San Francisco hospital, employees of Medisas Inc. were celebrating the debut of their medical records software. It was the product of two years of planning, coding, and countless meetings with hospital administrators, all driven by Gautam Sivakumar, the startup’s founder and chief executive...
A program that gives foreign students who attend Massachusetts colleges and universities the option of staying in the Bay State to build their businesses got a boost Thursday from Silicon Valley Bank. Gov. Deval Patrick established the so-called "Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program," administered by the...
A month after cutting a $1 million program that would help foreign entrepreneurs grow new businesses in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker’s administration has earmarked $100,000 to resurrect the effort, as part of the budget for the next fiscal year. Though the funding is a small fraction of the...
It’s not easy to “win” a visa in the high-skilled labor market. The application period for those coveted so-called H-1B visas began earlier this month and the annual quota was maxed out in just a week. Here in Massachusetts, some entrepreneurs are trying to work around the...
Don’t expect this kind of zippy action from your Congress… After having breakfast on Wednesday at the Mandarin Oriental in Boston, venture capitalists Brad Feld and Jeff Bussgang decided to “open-source” a novel strategy for creating more H1-B visas for entrepreneurs that was developed here in...