Factors That Influence Immigrant Decision

Entrepreneurs are the people who are not afraid of taking chances though knowing that the chances might be bad, but nonetheless they are always positive and hope for the best. The risks they take are well calculated so that when it succeed, it brings good results.

Entrepreneurs, individuals who come up with an plan in means of profit while knowing the risks that comes along. however, in adam smith time(1723-1790), the definition of an entrepreneur was different it was an “ individual purusing his or her own good to achieve the best good for all”. Those individuals led by the “invisible hand” would provide

When the immigrants came to the U.S., the most have nothing, no money, no friends, so they were not afraid of the failure. They had nothing could be lost again. Also, they all thought that the U.S. was a place full of opportunities, so they were brace and tried their American Dream. Many immigrants with their American Dream came to the U.S. that are many opportunities to let them to get. They want to start a business because they couldn’t do that in their original homeland. Actually, many well-known entrepreneurs are like this.

In recent years, debates regarding policy have focused heavily on the topic of immigration in the United States. Despite all of the attention that this topic has gained, it seems that skilled immigrants is one group that has been overlooked. In large part, this particular group is becoming more prominent due to the fact that many are becoming entrepreneurs, especially in the Silicon Valley. Thus, I am interested in finding out how skilled immigrant entrepreneurs are beneficial in numerous aspects such as economic growth, innovation, public policy and societal changes. Moreover, I want to explore what challenges and opportunities these immigrants face and how their involvement within Silicon Valley provide a beneficial influence for growth. One primary source of my research will be the documentary film Starting-Up in America by Tarik Ansari. A very interesting fact quoted in the documentary stated by Vivek Wadhwa, colleague of the Stanford Law School, “Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents”. Starting-Up in America focuses on the challenges experienced by Silicon Valley’s skilled immigrant entrepreneurs with U.S. Immigration. The documentary interviews a handful of successful immigrant entrepreneurs asking questions such as: “Why come to the United States to start a business”, “How does your project benefit the U.S.

· Read PPT / Immigrants have started more than 25% of Public traded companies in the U.S. that were backed by venture capital investors (National Venture Capital Association). For Ex. Google, YAHOO, Tesla, EBay, Nordstrom and much more

A survey conducted in 2007 showed that 1 out of 10 immigrants own a small business (“Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners” 1). Roughly 7.5 percent of Immigrants are self-employed due to the

Research Question 4: How do China-born immigrants in the GTA describe the challenges and successes in starting their own businesses as entrepreneurs? Three themes emerged for this research question: (a) Troubled marriages; (b) Raising funds; and (c) Opportunities to help other newcomers. Following is a discussion of each of these themes.

The most recent National Foundation for American Policy study is the first to look at immigrants’ roles in America’s most valuable startup companies. As previously stated, over half of America’s billion-dollar startup companies were founded by at least one immigrant. Additionally, nearly three-quarters of these companies employed an immigrant in a key managerial position. Without these immigrants nearly 75% of America’s billion-dollar startup companies may not have ever existed or at least not have existed in the U.S.

This case study looks at the problems facing immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada and key recommendations to follow in order to succeed in starting a profitable company. Shu Guo, like 40,000 other immigrants, came to Canada seeking entrepreneurial opportunities, but many would fall short. Immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada find themselves falling to the same problems. These include a lack of start-up money, correct marketing to find customers, dealing with government regulations that they have a lack of knowledge about, language/culture barriers, and big chains with better resources.

Immigrants who came to the U.S. were putting themselves at risk by giving their whole life up and bringing everything they owned here. For many of those immigrants who came here the pull factors were greater than the push factors. The pull factors were jobs in factories, railroads. For example, in the “ 1850’s, gold fever had lured 20,000 chinese men to San Fransisco.”(Why They Came to America) Another example is “coolies” were american businesspeople actively sought Chinese contract laborers.”( Why They Came to America) The chinese were given the opportunity to build railroads in the U.S. Another important pull factor was the homestead act, which gave away free land. In the U.S there was also religious and political freedoms. Another pull

Although much research has been launched into women entrepreneurship and immigrant and minority entrepreneurship as separate topics, there does not seem to be much focus on entrepreneurs who fit into both categories, the ethnic female entrepreneur. This profile covers a woman of ethnic background who launches an organization to create innovative solutions for profit. Owing to the fact that they belong to two categories that face the most challenges in entrepreneurial pursuits, it is necessary to find out how their special circumstance acts as a barrier to their

Government intention and policy benchmark favoring immigrant business owners are thus needed to confront certain difficulties confronted by immigrant business owners in comparison with Irish in the growth of their venture accomplishments. Moreover, the danger of segregation must be unexpected, and primary business assistance evaluates, projected for all business owners in a nation, are vital to promote both Irish and immigrant business ownership in Ireland. The majority usually, policies containing in the subjecting of difficulties to business owners and business formation as well as programmes, developing the economic development outlook of the nation are at minimal as vital as emigration and inclusive programmes in motivating and promoting

Another report suggests that immigrants, in fact, create new jobs (Farlie, 2012). The study utilizes data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2007) to highlight that the ‘business ownership rate is higher for immigrants than non-immigrants -- 10.5 percent of the immigrant workforce owns a business compared with 9.3 percent of the non-immigrant (i.e. U.S.-born) workforce’ and that ‘immigrant-owned businesses are slightly more likely to hire employees than are non-immigrant-owned businesses, [although] they tend to hire fewer employees on average.’ The findings go further to establish the generally positive effects entrepreneurial immigrants have on the labour market and economy as a

The purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study is to explore strategies some immigrant small business owners use to sustain their businesses beyond five years. The targeted population encompasses three immigrant small business owners in Houston, Texas that have continued their business for over five years. The implications for positive social change include the potential for successful immigrant small business owners to encourage immigrants and entrepreneurs to expand or start small businesses, thereby improving the availability of multicultural goods and services. Small business owners will likely gain an increased knowledge of strategies for business sustainability beyond five years, which will encourage immigrants to expand businesses in Houston, Texas and other multicultural cities.

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