{"id":3330,"date":"2023-07-11T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:41:20","slug":"3330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/3330\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Of Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was lucky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory_techtransfer-cleanenergy-activity-7084279666080940032--gO4\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory_techtransfer-cleanenergy-activity-7084279666080940032--gO4', 'to meet with Vanessa Chan']);\" >to meet with Vanessa Chan<\/a>, the\u00a0Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions. She wanted to hear what kind of hurdles when it comes to start a company (hint: a lot.) I told her that a major, overlooked issue is that you generally to be a permanent resident to start at company in the US, whereas two-thirds of postdocs are foreign nationals and on visas. There are ways to get around the requirement (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unshackledvc.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.unshackledvc.com\/', 'Unshackled']);\" >Unshackled<\/a>), but it&#8217;s a little sad not more is done to provide support to those willing and able (plus \u2013 it is a well-known trope that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/almost-half-of-fortune-500-companies-were-founded-by-american-immigrants-or-their-children\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/almost-half-of-fortune-500-companies-were-founded-by-american-immigrants-or-their-children\/', 'many US companies are founded by foreign nationals']);\" >many US companies are founded by foreign nationals<\/a>, what I tend to believe is among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674753402\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674753402', 'what sets California apart from other states and other countries']);\" >what sets California apart from other states and other countries<\/a>, where entrepreneurship doesn&#8217;t flourish as much as expected despite many efforts)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3331\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3331\" class=\"wp-image-3331 \" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chan_lbl_wojdyla.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conversation with Vanessa Chan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was lucky to meet with Vanessa Chan, the\u00a0Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions. She wanted to hear what kind of hurdles when it comes to start a company (hint: a lot.) I told her that a major, overlooked issue is that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11,14,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkeley-lab","category-english","category-projects","category-resources","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}