44 SXSW V2V 2015
Time
Room Name: Core Conversation
Navigating the Regulatory
Landscape as a Startup
Can you imagine finding product-market fit for your startup, demonstrating traction,
and raising capital only to have your startup killed by regulators? It could happen to you!
Startups always have too much that needs attention with not enough time for every-
thing—isn't it best just to focus on executing and ignore the regulators, like Uber is
doing? Risk management is one of the most important skills a founder needs, and in
highly regulated industries, ignoring government actors and hoping everything works
out is a foolish risk.
In this session we will discuss both defensive and offensive strategies to engaging the
government, specifically focusing on examples drawn from the startup visa advocacy
effort and immigrant founders' stories of problems at the border. Learn how govern-
ment bureaucrats make decisions and how you can protect your startup from getting
killed by regulations.
Aurora
Chisté
Hack For Big
Choices,
Chief Executive
Officer
Craig
Montuori
Venture Politics,
Founder &
Executive Director
Christopher
Nicholson
Venture Politics,
Partner
Tahmina
Watson
Watson
Immigration Law,
Attourney
10:30am
Raphael 1: Panel
TUESDAY
