Diverse Entrepreneurs Are Changing Face Of State’s Small Business
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Jose’s Used Cars is at the corner of SW 29 and Western Avenue.
Next door is Jose’s Quick Lube.
Next to it is Jose’s Transmission.
And then there’s Jose’s Transmission Parts.
Jose Realzola’s wife, Berta, owns a Mexican restaurant about three blocks down the road.
From restaurants to real estate, first-generation immigrant business owners — like the Realzolas — are changing the face of Oklahoma small business.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo.-based entrepreneurial think tank, says 0.35 percent of immigrants are entrepreneurs compared with 0.28 percent for the native born.
In Oklahoma, with its high concentration of small businesses, immigrants make up a significant chunk of entrepreneurs.
The Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, whose membership includes some non-Hispanic-owned businesses but does not include all Hispanic-owned businesses, has more than 300 members.
Other immigrant groups are evidence, too… read full article.
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