Immigrant founder of indee.tv stuck in Vancouver due to visa hassle

First I'm very sympathetic to Sharan's plight. This has to suck.<p>But it raises some real issues with the whole startup founder plan. Does a company with (what looks like) 4 people and a few seed investors count as a startup? This seems like a really low bar. I think pg's initial essay kind of glosses over the difficulty of defining a startup - or for that matter even a "startup investor".<p>I go both ways on this issue. I think letting smart, driven people into the US to work is awesome. But I'm not sold that being the founder of a "startup" is the right bar.

Stuck in Vancouver is hardly a terrible fate.<p>Run the company from there - the city is crawling with tv/film/media people who cost half as much as the do in Ca.

Can we please avoid using hashtags in article titles? This isn't Twitter...

Sharan's a friend, but it also touches a nerve because this could have very well have been me. While I think there's a lot of awareness about this topic, there isn't really enough about entrepreneurs who are living through this now (as opposed to people who have somehow successfully transitioned from immigrant to founder), mainly due to the scarcity of these stories.

Sometimes, stories like this remind me of that scene in pretty women where Edward says to Julia Roberts : "I never treated you like a prostitute.", and she replies "You just did."

Your story is both inspiring and disheartening at the same time.<p>Good luck and let us know how it goes.