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The Catalog Connoisseur: Lillian Vernon Is Born
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| Lillian Vernon became a household name at a time when women were not even supposed to work outside the home. From the humble beginnings of an immigrant family, Vernon started a business in the kitchen of her small home and grew it to be one of the most well-known multi-million dollar companies in the U.S as well as the first female-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. Today, the Lillian Vernon Corporation earns almost $300 million in revenues, has over 4,500 employees and continues to be one of the country’s leading catalog retailers. |
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The Catalog Connoisseur: Lillian Vernon Is Born
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| Lillian Vernon became a household name at a time when women were not even supposed to work outside the home. From the humble beginnings of an immigrant family, Vernon started a business in the kitchen of her small home and grew it to be one of the most well-known multi-million dollar companies in the U.S as well as the first female-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. Today, the Lillian Vernon Corporation earns almost $300 million in revenues, has over 4,500 employees and continues to be one of the country’s leading catalog retailers. |
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Joint Ventures for Immigrants
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| As an immigrant myself, I understand the hopes, fears, dreams and unique problems faced by immigrants, no matter where they are in the world. Having worked with hundreds of immigrants, I know how hard it is to start all over again. Here is one way that never fails to turn things around. |
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs ‘A Real Engine’ for Growth, Study Says
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| A new study indicates that the growing number of immigrant entrepreneurs in major U.S. cities have been a real engine for economic and job growth in many sectors and are outpacing self-employed native-born Americans. |
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FROM A LOCAL SHOP TO A GLOBAL CONGLOMERATE Part I
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| A look at how the U.S. immigrant communities start and operate small businesses and why are they more successful than the rest of the U.S. entrepreneurs. |
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The Youngsters Behind YouTube: The Early Years of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
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| “Everybody aspires to be a star,” says Steve Chen, a Taiwanese immigrant who came to the U.S. with his family in the hopes for a better life. Chen’s aspirations became a reality when he, along with Pennsylvania-born Chad Hurley created what is today the world’s largest online video website. YouTube, having been launched no more than two years ago has now become a global sensation, propelling both Hurley and Chen to the top of Business 2.0’s list of “The 50 People Who Matter Now.” YouTube was also named TIME magazine’s 2006 “Invention of the Year.” When Hurley and Chen decided to sell their company, they did so for a hefty price tag of $1.65 billion. |
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Tuning into the Future: How Sarnoff Engineered Success
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| Sarnoff rose from poor immigrant, to office boy, to communications manager, to president of one of the most successful companies of his time, and all because he asked himself one simple question: what’s next? How did Sarnoff always seem to find the next big thing? |
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Going Native: The Digital Immigrant Phenomenon
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| If you’re reading this, and are therefore using the Internet for information or research, then you are probably a ‘digital immigrant’. Sound strange? Well, we could assume that anyone that is aged over approximately 25 years and uses the Internet on a regular basis is a digital immigrant. After all, as a general definition, you are a digital immigrant if you were not born into the ‘digital age’ of computers, the Internet, email, mobile phones and the like, but have taken on these concepts as a natural part of your everyday life. Sounds like most of us out there, doesn’t it. |
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The Gift Of Receiving
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| Every family has one. That one person who shoulders all the family burdens, keeps the family secrets and cleans up the family messes. The one who is everyone’s sounding board and shoulder to cry on. The one who remembers all the holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. The one around whom the family always gathers.
In my family, it’s my grandma. She has been the rock in my family for as long as anyone can remember. |
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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVENTURE
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| In a week when the big media stories have been about disasters involving an oil spill off Louisiana, immigrant legislation in Arizona and bomb plots in Times Square, my “story of the week” was quite different. It was written in a San Francisco newspaper on April 29th, 1852. |
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Love, Health and Harmony
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| Few things in life are more important than your family. Yet few challenges in life seem as great as keeping your family together. However, you can experience close, healthy relationships with your family! |
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