Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Immigrant Entrepreneur: Juan Palacio

Juan came to the United States all because Columbia didn't have much opportunities, there was violence and he knew his country wasn't in a good position. 

Since his sister was already living in Miami, he immigrated at the age of 24. His immigrant struggles included eating from the dollar menu at McDonald's every single day. He was always lost taking the public transporation, but he was never lost in his dreams and passions. 

Juan, is a college dropout, self-taught had created his company, Bloomsybox, that magically transformed the flower business. His company, has been feautured nationwide throughout many media channels and he continues to thrive. 

Let's hear all about his immigrant entrepreneur journey to success!

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Alex Robbio

Alex came to the United States with his wife and a young daughter from Argentina with only $700 in their pockets. Alex had extremely humble beginnings with very little help. In this episode he shares how his immigrant entrepreneurial mind gets extremely creative to the point of asking their first employees to bring their own desktop computers to work. 

He started his software company with his brother and father and shares some extremely valuable advice that he wishes he did in the beginnning stages of his business. 

Although he operated in United States, his company had offices in several different countries and came to a total of 700 employees when they decided to sell the company. 

Some of his successes that he shares transformed everyone who came in contact with this company, from interns, to employees, and even people who were never employed by their company were touched by the services that Alex and his company provided. 

Alex never raised capital to start his business, but does he think he should've raised capital? We'll find out!

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Where to find Alex: 

LinkedIn

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Endeavor.org

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Ashish Mudgal

Doctor Ashish Mudgal came to the United States when he was 26 years old from India. Although he always wanted to become a scientist and that is exactly why he came to the States; his journey to entrepreneurship was something out of the ordinary. He came to study on a Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences program to obtain his PhD. 

Doctor Ashish Mudgal never imagined that he would ever be an entrepreneur but after unique experiences it lead him to opening 2 start up companies. 

The start up that he has now, HeyHerbie combines the use of technology with elderly folks to invent a genius product.

This episode is packed with his powerful and insightful advice for all immigrant entrepreneurs. 

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Where to find Doctor Ashish Mudgal:

Company: HeyHerbie | LinkedIn

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Alisa Barcan

Alisa was born in Romania at the time where Romania was nearing the communist regime. Although growing up, communism was over a lot of people were still living the communist mindset. 

They could not rely on the purchasing power to buy food, because there was no food. Given that experience, Alisa was able to bring some of the post communism experiences into her entrepreneurial journey. 

Alisa's immigrant entrepreneur journey didn't bring her to the United States, she immigrated to United Kingdom where she was joined by her boyfriend.

Although Alisa was set on a government sector career path she took a career aptitude test and it surprised her in many ways. The test told her that she sould be in the financial/business industry. So she switched gears and absolutely loves making an impact on the world.

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Gary Kurek 

Gary was raised on a bison ranch in Alberta, Canada. He was always a curious kid growing up and he found himself in the robotic industry when his teacher in school encouraged him to participate in the science fair at the age of 14. 

Gary was self taught throughout his young adult life and actually never got a college degree. After his successes in the science fair where he invented a wheelchair device that can be used both like a walker and like a wheelchair device, he found himself in the heart of the startup industries, Silicon Valley. 

He joined the Peter Thiel fellowship program at the age of 19 and received $100,000 for 2 years to create his company. Now his entrepreneurial ventures are focused on bringing manufacturing industries back to America. 

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Nelly Garcia

Nelly came to the States when she was 15 years old with her family and knew very little English. She grew up in Mexico where they didn't have central Air Conditioning and she didn't know what she was missing until they moved to the States. 

At a very young age, she learned that making money is very easy and that she enjoyed it but when life hit her hard at a very tragic place in her life, she lost all of her hope. She was depressed, had no friends and lost her faith. For 2 years she thought she was nothing.

But one point she turned to God and asked for help. It was at that point where her entrepreneur journey had pivoted in the right direction. 

Nelly went on to create her bakery and was feautured in Entreprenuers Magazine, and Forbes list: 30 under 30. Her entrepreneur journey brought tears to my eyes and she's a true inspiration to people all around the world.

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Laila Pence

Laila was born in Egypt and had a great upbringing, but when war broke out when she was 9 years old she nearly died. She escaped a bomb that landed in her room shortly after escaping with her family. After that, her life completely changed forever. Laila had to be separated from her family and live with her grandmother for a period of time, go to a French school and that was the worst year of her life. 

Her dad finally filed papers to move to the States but a month before the departure, he broke his leg and wasn't able to go. Laila and her mom moved to New York with and lived with a family, renting a one bedroom. 

They had extremely humble beginnings, she was selling hot dogs at the Staten Island after school as well as her mom. She would've never imagined being where she's at right now; wealthy, a multimillionaire, all because she opened up her own wealth management firm at the age of 22. 

Her journey to success is quite astonishing. She's been featured in lots of lists in Forbes and Barron's and dominates the wealth management market.

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Mentioned in the episode

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill   

Millionaire next door by Thomas J. Stanley 

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Mo Hossain

Mo lived a freeing and a happy life in Bangladesh, but when he came with his family members to join his father in the States at 13 years old he had to take ESL classes to learn English. He had no idea what business he was going to open. 

For a period of time he wanted to save money to start some sort of venture to create passive income. However, when he quit his day job he had no plan. There was absolutely no business idea in place, so he went traveling. 

After some travels, he had several business ideas. He either wanted to get into real estate to get passive income, or start a life coach business. However, he quickly realized that starting a software company was his ultimate immigrant entrepreneur venture. 

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Anshu Karki

Anshu came to the States when she was 18 years old. She was raised by a single mother in Nepal and her plan was to come get her undergraduate degree in the States and go back to Nepal. However, her journey lead her on an unexpected path. 

She got her undergraduate degree in business and economics and being an immigration attorney was not something that she dreamed of. 

As an immigration attorney, Anshu is now serving immigrants all over the nation and businesses who want to retain immigrants in their companies. 

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Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Maria Navas Moreno

Doctor Maria Navas Moreno came to the States of hoping to do scientific research. She was nearing the journey to becoming a professor when she realized she didn't want to do that anymore. Her journey lead to marrying a Columbian immigrant man and they both landed in Colorado. That is when she became unemployed as an immigrant due to her visa situation. During that entire year she was researching, networking and going to all the events that were closely related to her field. 

She co-founded Lever Photonics and 3 years later, with 2 other co-founders they are now in a completely different field from where they began and thriving. 

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