Original post by Mark Milian via Bloomberg
Germany’s immigration policy isn’t perfect, but hey, at least it’s not the U.S.
Entrepreneurs in Berlin’s budding tech scene say Germany’s relatively relaxed visa-application process gives them an edge in attracting international talent, such as software engineers who don’t want to go through the strained H-1B route in the U.S.
“In Silicon Valley, it’s getting harder and harder to get international visas,” Marco Boerries, a German entrepreneur, said in an interview in Berlin. “The amount of talent that I need for the problem that we’re trying to solve, I have an easier time finding here than in Silicon Valley.”
Boerries’s Berlin-based startup, NumberFour, has been secretly developing tools for small businesses for the last few years. The company, funded by $38 million in venture capital, is his fourth business. Boerries has sold his earlier companies to Sun Microsystems and Yahoo!
