by Suhas | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Morris Beschloss Although it’s already a well-known fact that America’s independent small business sector generates more expansion than the rest of the world nations combined, little has been indicated about the intensifying role played by the...
by Suhas | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Frank Holmes At 16, Jan Koum immigrated to the U.S. from his native Ukraine, then still under communist control. He and his single mother rented a small two-bedroom apartment on government assistance and relied on food stamps. Even though he didn’t own a computer...
by Suhas | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Luisa Kroll As a child Thai Lee, now 56, moved around a lot. The daughter of a well regarded Korean economist, she was born in Thailand and spent many years in Korea. In her teens, she moved to the U.S. with her older sister. They lived with a friend of the family...
by Suhas | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Miriam Jordan When Angel Taveras was growing up in Providence, R.I., in the 1980s, his youth baseball team was sponsored by Alan Jewelry, a local business, which played against the likes of Washington Park Woodworking. These days, sponsors include La Gran Parada...
by Suhas | May 29, 2015 | Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Starting Your Business, Uncategorized
By Steve Matthews and Catarina Saraiva Even though American politicians like to praise small business as the job-creating machine, research shows that it’s the startups that expand employment. These new entrepreneurs are now back on the rise, according to a...
by Suhas | Mar 9, 2015 | Article, Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Maria Contreras-Sweet If the U.S. jobs data released on the first Friday of every month is starting to sound like a broken record, it’s because records continue to be broken. The American economy added 267,000 private-sector jobs in January. That’s 59 straight...
