Why should people Invest in small businesses?
Studies show that revenue that is invested in the local community stays in the local community.
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What gave you the Idea to start your own business?
We both always dreamed of having a business, wanting to be financially independent.
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What gave you the Idea to start your own business?
In my home country of El Salvador, I always had the idea to start my own business.
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What gave you the Idea to start your own business?
My husband was just laid off from his job and I was working at Kaiser. I told my husband why not learn how to cook?
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What gave you the Idea to start your own business?
This was so many years ago, so it’s kind of hard to answer. Well, I was working at a job that wasn’t very stable so I decided to start my own business.
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What gave you the idea to start your own business?
We came here twenty years ago and worked under the previous owner, who was also from our country of Thailand. As soon as that owner wanted to sell the restaurant, we decided to invest in the business we loved.
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What gave you the idea to start your own business?
The idea about owning my own business happened after the former owner of Copy Central Mission reached out to me and offered me the business for sale. I had worked here in the past, back when I was in high school. After speaking with my older siblings…
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What gave you the idea of starting your own business?
I have always owned my own business, but this is the first time I get to actually interact with the community. In my previous job, I was sitting behind a computer – not something I wanted out of my work. So, I decided I wanted to open my own business.
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While Bing Chiu Wong and Lai Mei Chen arrived separately to San Francisco back in the early 1980s, they shared the same dream of a better life in a land that offered opportunity not available in their native China. The immigrants– like many other newcomers before and since – believed that hard work would eventually translate to family economic success in the U.S.
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Back in Antigua, Guatemala, Sofia Lopez had a small business selling items like pocketbooks, belts and wallets on the vibrant main square. She had always wanted to run such a venture and was achieving success … until violence compelled her to leave her homeland a decade ago.
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