From New Immigrant to Top Franchisee in Three Years

From New Immigrant to Top Franchisee in Three Years   How One Family Turned Crisis Into Opportunity and Built Their American Dream Through The Grout Doctor   The Decision to Leave At 52 years old, Juan Boria stood at a crossroads. After managing a retail clothing business in Peru for four years, COVID-19 had devastated […]

FilterShine USA: A Hidden Opportunity in Commercial Kitchen Safety

How one franchise is turning a hidden industry gap into a recession-resistant business model While most entrepreneurs chase trendy concepts or saturated markets, FilterShine USA has carved out something rare in franchising: a genuine niche that solves a universal problem most people never think about. The Hidden Gap in Every Commercial Kitchen Walk into any […]

From Communist Romania to Hawaiian Paradise: This Grout Doctor’s Unlikely Journey

How Remus Baesu escaped across borders, built a construction empire, and created a five- franchise family business spanning Arizona to Hawaii 1989: The Great Escape Just months before the Romanian Revolution would topple Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist regime, Remus Baesu made a decision that would change his life forever. Born and raised in Arad, a city […]

Your Immigrant Background Is Your Business Advantage

As an immigrant, you possess unique advantages that can make you exceptionally successful in franchising. Here’s how to leverage your background for maximum business success. Franchisors across America are taking notice: immigrants are rapidly becoming the backbone of their franchise networks. From fast-food chains to service businesses, franchise brands are reporting that immigrant entrepreneurs now […]

COIT – A Legacy of Innovation and Quality

COIT A Legacy of Innovation and Quality   COIT was founded by Lou Kearn, who introduced drapery cleaning services backed by a satisfaction guarantee—a novel concept at the time . This commitment to quality and customer satisfaction laid the foundation for COIT’s expansion into various cleaning services, including carpet, upholstery, tile and grout, air ducts, […]

Get into the Booming Natural Lawn Care Market

Featured Business Opportunity EcoGreen Lawn Care Franchise   Own a EcoGreen Lawn Care franchise and provide your clients with lawn care that is Safer by Nature with 100% organic proprietary lawn care products.   Why Own an EcoGreen Lawn Care Franchise?   Large & Growing Market The lawn care industry had an estimated worth of […]

Escape to Prosperity: How a Cambodian Refugee Created an $8 Million Franchise

Escape To Prosperity: Refugee Creates 1300 American Jobs

Ty Lav’s family escaped Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge uprising with only the clothes on their backs, but in the years following, America has proved to be not just a refuge, but a land of opportunity and salvation. For Ty Lav’s family, coming to America was literally a matter of life and death. Cambodians of Chinese ancestry, […]

Meet The Waffle Master of NYC 3

Meet The Waffle Master of NYC

Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Thomas DeGeest Country of Origin: Belgium Emigrated to the U.S.: 1997 Launched W&D: 2007 Annual Revenue: $5 million Jobs Created: 100   Thomas DeGeest traded in his six-figure IBM job, escaped PowerPoint hell and followed his dream of bringing authentic Belgian waffles to the streets of New York City. Thomas DeGeest had a six-figure job at IBM when […]

Crowdfunding’s Pros and Cons for Immigrant Startups

Crowdfunding is hot right now, but is it right for you? Learn crowdfunding’s pros and cons in this revealing interview with Evan Cohen, a top executive of Indiegogo. Immigrant Business:  Indiegogo has become one the of the top three crowdfunding sites on the web in a few short years. How did it get started? Cohen. Basically, our three […]

Russian Immigrant Creates $80M Health Food Empire 1

Russian Immigrant Creates $130M Health Food Empire

Russian immigrant Michael Smolyansky found inspiration in a childhood drink. Today, his son Edward and daughter Julie (pictured above) lead a food empire with $130 million in annual revenue. Michael Smolyansky came to Chicago in the 1970s from the Soviet Union, a young man with a dream common to many immigrants coming to the U.S.—the chance […]