My employer was in the process of getting a PERM for me when they announced layoffs, which caused the petition to be denied. How soon after a round of layoffs is it "safe" to apply again?

The employer must wait at least 6 months.

What's the usual cost for a company to change someone's status from a TN visa to an EB3/EB2 greencard? How long does it usually take?

There are multiple different EB2 and EB3 green card options so the costs and timelines can vary significantly. The timeline also can be impacted by country of birth. Very broadly, the total cost ranges from $10,000 to $25,000 and the timeline ranges from 1 year (EB1 from a country other than India or China) to 15 years (non-EB1s from India). For those not from India or China in the EB2 or EB3 category, the current processing is about 2-3 years.

EB2/3 are 80+ years for India last I checked, even more if priority date is after 2019.

This. I never understood why he even included it in the article. Did he get his company to pay for the trip as well?

Great article!

My company participated in the Battlefield and had a space in the Alley. You do get extra attention if you also participated in Battlefield but the Startup Alley by itself is not worth it. It's complicated and exhausting to stand there for the length of the event and it's definitely the most inefficient way to get tractiton.

It would be relatively easy to port to Android. Please open source it!

Agree entirely! However, Google still has a lot of work to do to put some sort of order in the lower end of Android devices like reducing fragmentation, offering a more unified experience for users and making sure that new devices are not shipped with obsolete hardware and software. Android One, for example, is a great initiative that desperately needs to go global.

"It's not a bug, it's a feature"

Wow, i could definitely see this as a viable business model for LineageOS (previously Cyanogen) I wonder if they ever considered it.