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Make startup formation, founder immigration, early capital, worker mobility, employee equity, and public first-customer pathways easier to use.
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Jul 6, 2026
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What is failing, what we would change, and the conclusion we are willing to defend.
America's innovation advantage depends on people being able to start, join, fund, and scale new companies. Business formation remains strong: Census reported 523,971 seasonally adjusted business applications in May 2026. Small businesses remain a large job engine. But a startup economy is not automatic. It depends on rules that make formation fast, capital accessible, talent mobile, founders welcome, and early public customers possible.
The Innovation Party should be aggressively pro-builder. That does not mean every startup is good policy or every founder deserves a subsidy. It means the country should remove avoidable friction from company formation while protecting workers, competition, and taxpayers.
Create a one-stop startup formation and compliance portal for federal tax registration, beneficial ownership, payroll setup, export-control screening, SBIR/STTR discovery, and state handoffs.
Expand SBIR/STTR, state matching, and commercialization-readiness support for frontier startups, with faster awards and public reporting on follow-on capital, revenue, and procurement transition.
Give serious immigrant founders a statutory startup visa instead of relying on parole discretion under the International Entrepreneur Rule.
Protect worker mobility by limiting noncompetes through statute, preserving trade-secret law and narrow sale-of-business exceptions.
Make employee equity usable for startup workers through plain-language grants, tax deferral where liquidity is absent, and transparent risk disclosure.
Keep domestic R&D expensing stable and simple for startups, and build a public first- customer path through modular procurement, challenge prizes, and mission agencies.
The point is not founder worship. The point is national capacity. A country that makes it hard to start, hard to hire, hard to move, hard to get a first customer, and hard to stay through immigration rules should not be surprised when builders go elsewhere.
Turn frustration into useful pressure.
If this position misses evidence or a lived consequence, challenge it. If it holds up, help test it locally and connect it to the issues around it.