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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Start and Grow 27% of New Businesses in the U.S.

We explore their stories. How they started and built their products, often without connections or credit.

Companies like Paypal, Ebay, WeWork, Indiegogo, SpaceX, Whatsapp and Vaynermedia.

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The Immigrant Entrepreneur

How Immigrants Crush It, While Facing Big Challenges

050 TEACHLR – Teaching Those Who Want to Learn in Latin America

Sometimes I wonder, what about those talented entrepreneurs who stay in their emerging-market country? In this episode we meet an entrepreneur in Venezuela, an emerging market – and one of the most challenging places to live and work today.

Moises Annicchiarico, co-founder of Teachlr.com, has visited America and other countries, but is proud to have started and grown Teachlr in Caracas, Venezuela. In this episode he shares his business and talks about some of the advantages and struggles of starting a company in a challenging environment.

Moises and his cofounder Ruben Benarroch, created Teachlr.com, in order to teach … More

049 BONUS EPISODE – Snips from Gary Vaynerchuk, Hiten Shah & Due Quach – To Introduce The Immigrant Entrepreneur

Welcome to The Immigrant Entrepreneur.

This is a bonus episode. Two days ago we were listed #4 on iTunes New and Noteworthy, and #16 in the business category of PodcastChart.com. I want to give you new listeners a flavor of The Immigrant Entrepreneur by sharing snips of several awesome episodes.

A flavor of what makes immigrant entrepreneurs overcome all obstacles to create 1/3 of Silicon Valley startups, 27% of all business in this country.  What is the immigrant story behind Gary Vaynerchuk working in the back of his dad’s liquor store when he was 14?  What allowed Due Quach to … More

048 How to Be the Person You Dreamed of Becoming! Emily Filloramo!

Why is it important that you do the work you have chosen to do, and not someone else? How can you break through to the next level? How do you get out of your own way? How do you overcome negative self-talk?  Emily Filloramo lives to help her clients answers these questions.

Emily shares about the the decision to become an entrepreneur.  After a successful 27-year career at Pfizer, Inc., one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, she simply decided to do what she loved.

That is not what happened!  Emily was laid off in October, 2011.  She panicked, for … More

047 “It Kind of Breaks My Heart” – Sheila Pakdaman

Sheila Pakdaman, demonstrates that the power of gratitude is in paying attention to the details, paying attention to the nuances of the stories that surround you, from your parents, from the sacrifices others have made, to the needs of others.  She demonstrates that gratitude is about being fully alive.

Sheila was educated in global medicine and biology and has published research on health issues, from the Masai in Kenya to chemical addictions in Los Angeles. But in the course of her research, she discovered another need, for people to lift themselves up through education.

She founded iTutorU, LLC, https://www.itutoru.org… More

046 How to Measure Your Customer’s Success – Alexander Kesler

As an immigrant entrepreneur, who founded a successful digital marketing agency, Alexander Kesler gives back many ways

One way is to uplift his 25 Romanian employees who are on rotation to work with his 25 Boston employees at his digital marketing agency – They say that their lives are changed forever. 

Regular listeners know that this podcast seeks to “encourage entrepreneurship in emerging markets”. I regularly ask guests for their input on how to accomplish that.  A pragmatic answer I receive is: ‘Yes, in developing countries, there is corruption and red tape, but what can be done right now is … More

045 Making Internet Available 24/7 in the Philippines – Dennis Mendiola

Dennis Mendiola loves to build bridges. 

Tens of millions of bridges.

  • Between Filipinos overseas and at home
  • Between computers and mobile phones
  • Bridging online users and offline mobile subscribers
  • Between those wanting to share prepaid credits

In the year 2000, he co-founded Chikka Text Messenger, a messaging app used by tens of millions throughout the world. 

The instant messaging application supports free SMS or text messaging between online users and offline mobile subscribers. 

It was the world’s first commercially successful integration of web and mobile utilities. Dennis filed a number of technology patents, (he says probably the most infringed-upon … More

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044 You Can Really Do What You Choose to Do – Allen Vaysberg

You can really do what you choose to do, Allen Vaysberg teaches, if you put your mind to it. The way to do it is to look at other people’s examples. Allen speaks simple, profound words. For example: “In order for you to love what you do, you have to understand who you are. Once you understand who you are and what you are passionate about, then you must become an expert in it. Once you become an expert then you make that your profession and you start creating products and services that help other people. Over time that becomes … More

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043 Empowering You and the World through Crowdfunding – Indiegogo

Indiegogo.com is the 722nd most visited website in the America, and one of the most visited websites in the world.

Because Indiegogo gives possibility to peoples’ dreams.

There are over 300,000 campaigns on Indiegogo as we speak.  They send millions of dollars each week to over 100 countries.

People, like you, ask others to financially support their passion, their project, or even to help someone suffering from illness.

Recently 2,500 people raised money for Syrian refugees.

There are three types of projects on Indiegogo. Entrepreneurial Projects:

Like Flow Hive which raised over $12 million to fund a way to … More

042 The Story Is No More Important Than The Storyteller

Journalist, Kevin Ferguson, recalls the Irish community in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where he spent his summers.

He recalls: “You felt safe as a child because no one was watching you, but everyone was watching you.  You ate at large family style tables. There was social dancing every night with all ages joining in. A very welcome, nurturing environment.

Kevin’s documentary, Dancing at the Crossroads tells the story of the heyday of Irish immigrants 1950s and 60s, when 40 Irish resorts covered the Catskills. He hopes something of that legacy can endure.

There are some useful practical Irish … More

041 Running a US Company (Spreaker) from Italy

Radio is a $45 billion per year industry, I didn’t know that. Francesco Baschieri created Spreaker to allow new entrants into this huge market – such as podcasters, and creators of radio shows – to present their content more professionally.  Clear Channel, possibly the world’s largest radio programmer with 245 million listeners, partnered with Spreaker in 2013. They valued Spreaker’s web and mobile broadcasting tools allowing audio creators to connect and stay connected with their fans through live broadcasts.  Also Spreaker’s content creators can have their shows promoted alongside Clear Channel (now IheartRadio) most popular talk shows.

In this … More