How do international students start businesses in the US?

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10 years ago

Referring to TechCrunch article "How international students are keeping US colleges afloat and powering the tech industry" <https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/19/how-international-students-are-keeping-us-colleges-afloat-and-powering-the-tech-industry/>

"Specifically, nearly one-quarter of U.S. unicorns had a founder who first came to America as an international student, which shows their path to success often begins on U.S. college campuses."

How do they do it?

I'm currently on an F-1 visa and looking to start a business when I'm on OPT. How do these other founders do it and then get the right to stay?

H1B where their employer is their board? But it's still a lottery

O-1? But it's supposedly a very hard visa to get?

EB-5? But you need $500K-1M

NIW?

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