Relocating to the US - Help needed

[DaShi]

This is true. You will likely find the visa process in the US to be lengthy and cumbersome.

[The Mad Monk]

Speaking of KC soccer...

Sporting Club receives four StadiumBusiness Awards
May 16, 2012 Comments Closed livestrongsportingpark
LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Robb Heineman, and Sporting Innovations take four of six awards
TheStadiumBusiness Awards were announced today at the Museo dell’Automobile di Torino in Italy. Sporting Club earned honors in four of the six categories the company was nominated for including Venue of the Year, Executive of the Year, the Community Award and the Product Innovation Award.

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park was selected as Venue of the Year for the world’s best stadium, arena or sports venue – from the small club to the mega-capacity national sports facilities. The $200+ million venue was up against competition from four different continents.

Other nominees for Venue of the Year included the site of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game (Amway Center) and 2011 Rugby World Cup (Forsyth Barr Stadium), as well as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion FC (The American Express Community Stadium).

Hundreds of nominations were whittled down to create the shortlist, judged by an independent panel of industry figures including:

•Ebru Köksal, General Secretary, Turkish Football Federation
•David Manica, President, MANICA Architecture, USA
•Pat Coyle, President, Coyle Media Inc, USA
•Michael Bolingbroke, COO, Manchester United FC
•Thierry Favre, Head of National Associations Development, UEFA
•Ian Nuttall (Chair), Founder, TheStadiumBusiness, Italy
The club’s state-of-the-art facility, opened to rave reviews in June 2011, has already hosted the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, along with the English Premier League’s Newcastle United FC and Mexico’s Club Deportivo Guadalajara. The stadium was selected to host the group stage of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup and served as the site for the semifinals and championship matches of the CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in April of 2012. The stadium is set to host Stoke City FC of the Barclay’s Premier League in August.

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park also won the Community Award for a stadium, arena and major sports complex that has found new ways to support, enhance and improve its local community while Sporting Club CEO, Robb Heineman earned Executive of the Year as a sports venue leader, pioneer or visionary that has over-delivered in the past 12 months. Heineman was recently chosen as one of the most promising young executives in sports business under the age of 40 by SportsBusiness Journal at the organization’s Forty Under 40 Awards gala in March.

With a unique vision and expertise in technology, Sporting Kansas City launched Sporting Innovations in October of 2011. Sporting Innovations (SI) is a sports technology company focused on developing and deploying next-generation technology to support the sports industry, and its fans. Sporting Innovations won the Product Innovation Award for their FAN360 Application. FAN360 is a real time delivery of interactive experiences by injection of sociographic data to create social intelligence and facilitate engagement.

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park was also nominated for New Venue Award and Customer Experience Award.

Click here to view a comprehensive list of Sporting Kansas City accolades. For more information on TheStadiumBusiness Awards visit their website at www.stadiumbusinessawards.com.

VENUE OF THE YEAR AWARD

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Kansas City, USA
Amway Center, Orlando, Florida, USA
Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai, China
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand
The American Express Community Stadium, Brighton, UK

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD

Robb Heineman, CEO, Sporting KC, USA
Alex Martins, CEO, Orlando Magic, USA
Julian Jenkins, Director Of International Marketing & Special Projects, Cardiff City FC, UK
Lee Zeidman, SVP and GM STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre and L.A. LIVE, USA
Martin Perry, Executive Director, Brighton & Hove Albion FC, UK

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AWARD

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Kansas City, USA
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada
City Square / Etihad Stadium, Manchester City FC, UK
Amway Center, Orlando, Florida, USA
The American Express Community Stadium, Brighton, UK

PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD

FAN360 (Sporting Innovations), USA
SPS Terraces (Intelligent Engineering), UK
Texlon ETFE Cladding at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin (Vector Foiltec), Germany
VisionSOFT (ANC Sports Enterprises LLC), USA
MCG Smartphone App (MCG / NextDigital), Australia

COMMUNITY AWARD

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Kansas City, USA
Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

NEW VENUE AWARD

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Kansas City, USA
The American Express Community Stadium, Brighton, UK
Juventus Stadium, Turin, Italy
Stadion Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland
Ulker Sports Arena, Istanbul, Turkey
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand
Coface Arena, Mainz, Germany

[pchang]

The Mad Monk is to KC Metro Area as Lancer is to Philipina women.

[pchang]

Most US companies that sell in the CIS do so from a European office.

[Alexander's Horse]

God's gift to immigration...

[Az]

Most US companies that sell in the CIS do so from a European office.

Which makes a lot of sense. But does it also apply to small manufacturing companies? Is there such a niche of companies in the States that is a manufacturer that sells worldwide, but has some 50 workers or so?

[The Mad Monk]

The Mad Monk is to KC Metro Area as Lancer is to Philipina women.

[pchang]

Which makes a lot of sense. But does it also apply to small manufacturing companies? Is there such a niche of companies in the States that is a manufacturer that sells worldwide, but has some 50 workers or so?

There might be some, but I am not familiar with any in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are small specialty shops in the Houston area that make specialized oil and gas equipment that the CIS is in need of.

[Az]

There might be some, but I am not familiar with any in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are small specialty shops in the Houston area that make specialized oil and gas equipment that the CIS is in need of.

What would be good bay Area placement agencies for this sort of position? Cleantech industry in particular

[snoopy369]

Which makes a lot of sense. But does it also apply to small manufacturing companies? Is there such a niche of companies in the States that is a manufacturer that sells worldwide, but has some 50 workers or so?

My wife's family's company sells (huge) fans to oil companies, and they have a Russian office that handles sales in the CIS. They are around the size you note (30ish workers, IIRC). They certainly have US staff that periodically go overseas to do maintenance/etc., but primarily they handle sales out of Russia directly. It's too expensive to regularly fly someone over there to handle the necessary site visits and such, and a Russian employee will have a better handle of how to sell to Russians than an American would.

Of course, this is a company that's a hundred miles or so away from the Kansas City Metro area

[-Jrabbit]

The number of second-tier US cities trying to create viable tech industry corridors is legion, as noted by our most trusted news source, The Onion:

St. Louis Mayor Has Sad Little Plan For Turning City Into High-Tech Hub

September 15, 2012

ST. LOUIS—In what appears to be a completely earnest attempt to revitalize a sluggish local economy, St. Louis mayor Francis G. Slay unveiled Thursday a detailed, ambitious, and truly depressing plan to turn his city into a major technology hub. “We’re going to show America, and the rest of world, just how innovative and cutting-edge St. Louis can be,” said the mayor, who displayed genuine optimism as he outlined a desperate strategy to woo major players in the high-tech sector with a sad little series of subsidies and tax incentives his city cannot afford.

“When I look around St. Louis, I see nothing but possibility. Don’t be surprised if, within a few years, our crumbling warehouses are home to the nation’s hottest social media startups, and our abandoned rail yards are replaced with a world-class biotech research center. Get ready, because the future is happening right here!”

The mayor ended his presentation by pleading with reporters to dub the hopelessly untenable project “St. Louis 2.0.”

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Seriously, based on your posts, Az, your best bets for combining a hot tech sector with a world-class city are probably Boston and San Fran/San Jose.

[Dinner]

I agree with that. Given the fields in question San Francisco is by far and away the best bet with Boston being second and LA being a distant 3rd. In terms of software and technology companies SF probably has an order of magnitude more existing companies than second place Boston and something between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude more start ups. Seriously, SF gets like half of all the venture capital in the entire country when it comes to technology firms so it is THE place to be and it has been for decades. For finance you go to London or NYC but for tech you go to SF.

[Az]

My wife's family's company sells (huge) fans to oil companies, and they have a Russian office that handles sales in the CIS. They are around the size you note (30ish workers, IIRC). They certainly have US staff that periodically go overseas to do maintenance/etc., but primarily they handle sales out of Russia directly. It's too expensive to regularly fly someone over there to handle the necessary site visits and such, and a Russian employee will have a better handle of how to sell to Russians than an American would.

Of course, this is a company that's a hundred miles or so away from the Kansas City Metro area

This is interesting - So is that a Russian office with Russian guys who are the US company's employees? or is it a company that acts as a distributor? because for us the latter is the case. You still need to manage these distributors, which is what I do for the EU and the CIS.

[Hauldren Collider]

The number of second-tier US cities trying to create viable tech industry corridors is legion, as noted by our most trusted news source, The Onion:

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Seriously, based on your posts, Az, your best bets for combining a hot tech sector with a world-class city are probably Boston and San Fran/San Jose.

There is a very large tech sector in Dulles outside Washington as well.

[Dinner]

This might help you make a decision.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/08/americas-leading-high-tech-venture-capital-centers/3058/

So greater DC is about the same as San Diego and while San Diego is nice it is hardly a leader in the field. It is bigger than places like Chicago, Seattle, the entire state of Texas, and Denver when it comes to start ups and venture capital though. Notice how SF amounts to more than the rest of the country combined? I mean Southern California by itself amounts to more than any other state but SF just blows everyone away.