The Founder Visa is apparently coming to France. It could make a big difference.https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/france-creates-a-special-visa-for-entrepreneurs-engineers-and-investors/ …
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Zuck, Gates, Jobs were outliers. Out of a million candidates w/o degree, there will be only 2-3 of such outliers. Degree is the best filter
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The startup business is one of outliers. So a filter that eliminates outliers is *really* bad.
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IMO, it is extremely tough to filter candidates w/o a degree. Having a degree provides a good & a quick first check.
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Obviously it does not, weighted by outcome.
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whatever the outcome, your'e at the risk of admitting thousands of unqualified labor into the country in a time of refugee crisis.
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Note to American government: When education is free, people end up with degrees without contracting 200K loans...
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Zero of the ambitious people I know who left college early did it to save money.
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Imagine all the ambitious people who left college and did not get to meet because they just didn't have the money.
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so the solution is: radical socialism, govt-provided tuition and money to everyone? OK. Still nothing to do with the visa argument.
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I'm not trying to make a point, I'm underlying what's controversial in his initial statement.
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Gates, Jobs, Zuck are select few examples of survivorship bias. 1000s of entrepreneurs w/o a college degree would never make it
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I'm not saying they should use not having a degree as the test, but that they should not use having one as the test.
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could argue people like Gates, Jobs, Zuck are such exceptions, they wouldn't need a startup visa. They would make it regardless...
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for all others needing a startup visa, a college degree is a part of what would define minimum standards
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but now you can replicate a college degree for free online. It barely makes sense to pursue one anymore (in the US).
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having completed 10+ MOOCs, could say a proper college degree can't be replicated, yet...
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Udacity is better with their nanodegrees. Others are simply commoditizing instruction without much regard for quality
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but they will, because that's the only way they know... (hint: I'm french)
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