Sentences with phrase «of immigrant entrepreneurs»

The survey did not ascertain the age or circumstances of the immigrant entrepreneurs» arrival in the United States but found foreign - born founders generally to be «deeply rooted» in the United States, Hart said.

Not exact matches

To find those traits, we polled a sampling of successful female founders at the event, from Wurwand to an 11 - year - old lemonade entrepreneur who snagged a sweet offer on Shark Tank and an El Salvadoran - immigrant - turned - millionaire - waste management mogul who «turns trash into treasure.»

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

As an Indian - born immigrant and tech entrepreneur myself, I have first - hand experience of some modes of thinking that, frankly, shocked me and rocked my belief in the Valley's story of its own openness.

The seminal research on immigrants and diversity in Silicon Valley was conducted by University of California - Berkeley professor AnnaLee Saxenian, who published a paper titled «Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs» in 1999.

Immigrant entrepreneurs are the epitome of the American dream.

ProsperUS does all of their work in the neighborhoods assisting immigrant and minority entrepreneurs.

Despite their numbers, immigrant entrepreneurs must navigate a sea of obstacles beyond the normal challenges that all small business owners face.

Amid reports of the damage brain drain inflicts on the economy, Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, Wednesday introduced the Start - up Visa Act, which would open up the U.S. to immigrant entrepreneurs.

Meanwhile, Richard Herman, a Cleveland immigration lawyer and the author of Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy, claims nearly all of the net job creation in the past 20 years has come from companies less than five years old.

In a letter of support, they complained that «it is often impossible» for immigrant entrepreneurs to get a visa to stay in the U.S. «Even in cases where the founders already have a visa of some sort, they typically can't use this visa to start a company.

Indeed, two of our entrepreneurs in fact employ legal immigrants.

It's no wonder they make great entrepreneurs, or that roughly half of all Silicon Valley startups are founded by immigrants.

Like many immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S., Henderson feels deeply troubled over the prospect of a Trump Administration.

American leadership in the world «is not an accident,» he said, but rather «the work of entrepreneurs,» many of them immigrants.

Yet, instead of giving up he did the one thing that so many immigrants have in common with entrepreneurs: he kept taking risks.

«We're going to continue to push this administration, and frankly everyone in Washington to understand the merits of encouraging more, new company formation in the U.S., and to recognize the strong correlation between immigrant entrepreneurs and successful companies.»

The proportion of immigrant - founded companies has dropped 8.5 percent to 44 percent since 2005, attributed in part to the difficulties these entrepreneurs have obtaining green cards that would allow them to own companies and continue working and living in the U.S..

Update: The Department of Homeland Security has officially enacted the rule, outlined below, which aims to ease the ability for immigrant entrepreneurs to startup in the U.S..

That makes sense to entrepreneurs like Sankhla, who say they see their fate tied with the larger American Dream narrative of the U.S. and its immigrant culture.

Welcome to the so - called «Reverse Brain Drain,» whereby tens of thousands of U.S. - educated high - technology immigrant entrepreneurs are fleeing the U.S. each year out of frustration with our overly burdensome immigration system.

«The real problem isn't H - 1Bs — it's green cards,» says serial entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, a Stanford Law School fellow and author of The Immigrant Exodus.

Immigrant entrepreneurs are also uniquely qualified to create innovative business models that tap into the «hidden» needs of immigrant consumers in the U.S. Anurag Jain, a native of India and the co-founder of Prepay Nation in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, is a case Immigrant entrepreneurs are also uniquely qualified to create innovative business models that tap into the «hidden» needs of immigrant consumers in the U.S. Anurag Jain, a native of India and the co-founder of Prepay Nation in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, is a case immigrant consumers in the U.S. Anurag Jain, a native of India and the co-founder of Prepay Nation in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, is a case in point.

Although many immigrant entrepreneurs choose to cater to a community they are familiar with, «I think success comes when you try to go out of your comfort zone,» Jain says.

«There is no category of immigrant of higher economic value than a foreign - born entrepreneur who wants to come to the United States and start their business here,» says Dearie.

And so as I work toward that next step, I wanted to share some of my lessons learned with fellow immigrant entrepreneurs:

Actually, a wealth of foreign - born founders in a publication devoted to entrepreneurs shouldn't be all that surprising, given the well - known tendency for immigrants to start companies at a much higher rate than native - born Americans.

However, I think a lot of non-immigrants don't understand the process entrepreneurs, employees, and even employers have to go through in order for immigrants to work in this country.

It also disqualified a number of people known as immigrant entrepreneurs on the grounds that they had not technically founded their companies.

People that illegally hire immigrants will no longer be able to outmaneuver or take advantage of entrepreneurs like Greg.

Clearly, as a populace we're ready for any idea that might improve the overall economic picture, and the folks at the Kauffmann Foundation think they have one: Getting members of Congress to get off their butts and pass a startup visa to help bring more immigrant entrepreneurs into the country.

Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.

In addition, Evans says, the types of people applying for microloans — typically many low income and immigrants apply — expanded to include entrepreneurs who were highly educated and recently became unemployed.

It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.

None of these efforts are permanent fixes, but they at least offer immigrant entrepreneurs some stability — which they couldn't find before.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

The Sales Evangelist, Donald Kelly shares his story as an immigrant, and the essential mindset of successful entrepreneurs.

The VC trade group has spent much of the last year working to preserve carried interest tax benefits and protect immigrant entrepreneurs from deportation.

Polis hopes to increase the number of EB - 5 Regional Center Program visas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup Visas.

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In fact, more than half of U.S. companies valued at over $ 1B were founded by immigrant entrepreneurs.

Any one of these would help address the skills gap — the inability of willing employers to find workers with the right skills and qualifications — by enabling qualified, job - creating immigrant entrepreneurs to open more U.S. businesses.

«Because [that research] concentrates on the region of the United States in which high - tech immigrant entrepreneurs are most likely to be found, one can not generalize easily from it» to the rest of the country, Hart and Acs write in a paper titled «High - Technology Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.,» which is forthcoming in Economic Development Qimmigrant entrepreneurs are most likely to be found, one can not generalize easily from it» to the rest of the country, Hart and Acs write in a paper titled «High - Technology Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.,» which is forthcoming in Economic Development QImmigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.,» which is forthcoming in Economic Development Quarterly.

More than half (52 %) of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are immigrants, wrote Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld in a Wall Street Journal editorial last Wednesday.

Many of the immigrants were middle - class professionals and entrepreneurs, and they have established a strong economic, political, and cultural presence in southern Florida.

«New immigrants who aren't used to having credit cards tend to use it only for emergencies,» says Nick Noorani, an immigrant entrepreneur who explains the «secrets of immigration success» in Canada through workshops.

«New immigrants who aren't used to having credit cards tend to use it only for emergencies,» says Nick Noorani, a Vancouver - based immigrant entrepreneur who gives workshops on the secrets of immigrant success in Canada.

Immigrants account for around a quarter of US entrepreneurs.

Therefore, a nation of immigrants is a nation of entrepreneurs.