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Editorial Review:
A provocative look at the remarkable contributions of high-skill immigrant entrepreneurs in America
Both a revelation and a call-to-action, Immigrant, Inc. explores the uncommon skill and drive of America's new immigrants and their knack for innovation and entrepreneurship. From the techies who created icons of the new economy-Intel, Google, eBay and Sun Microsystems-to the young engineers tinkering with solar power and next-generation car batteries, immigrants have proven themselves to be America's competitive advantage.
With a focus on legal immigrants and their odyssey from homeland to start-up, this unique book
- Explores the psyche, cultural nuances, skills, and business strategies that help immigrants achieve remarkable success
- Explains how immigrants will create the American jobs of the future-if we let them
Whether you are a CEO, a civic leader, or an entrepreneur yourself, Immigrant, Inc. warns of the peril of anti-immigrant attitudes and a hostile immigration process. It also explains how any American can tap their "inner immigrant" to transform their lives and their companies.
Written by an immigration lawyer who represents immigrant entrepreneurs and a journalist who specializes in international culture, the authors have a front-row seat to this phenomenon, offering a fascinating glimpse into the mindset of the most persistent entrepreneurs of the era.
Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker) Reviews:
Storytelling combined with Facts at its best! 
2009-12-01 - Bob Smith and Richard Herman have combined wonderful storytelling with many facts and statistics to create an insightful look on the positive impact of immigrants. Written for both lay readers and professionals, entepreneurs, and anyone interested in immigration issues, Immigrant, Inc. shines light on both the positive attitudes and impact of immigrants. After reading the stories of many of the immigrants portrayed in this book, I gained a new respect for the determination, perserverance, and sense of adventure in immigrants. The positive impact it has had on me is to remind myself to "think like an immigrant." Wonderful read!
A Must Read!
2009-11-30 - I really do beleive this book is a must read whether you are a Immigrant yourself or trying to gain a better understanding of the value system behind Immigrants in this country. Herman and Smith do a great job of opening up the issues with our current immigration policies and taking us beyond the Mexican border.
A refreshing look at the immigrant spirit.
2009-11-28 - I found this book truly inspirational. "Immigrant, Inc." was well researched and clearly written, giving insight into the personalities and motivations of many of today's immigrants. Thank goodness there are people, such as these authors, who can shed light on the important and constructive aspects of immigration, especially in light of the overwhelming negative discussion that seems to pervade our media. I didn't know what to expect in this book, but I found it a pleasure to read and also an interesting window into the current, hot new ideas driving today's economy.
Fresh Perspective on Embracing Diversity
2009-11-26 - I work in the airline industry and love to travel around the world. "Immigrant, Inc." put into words what I've felt all along ----that taking risks and travelling outside of my native USA (and outside of my comfort zone) is essential to really understanding the beauty of other cultures, and the immense opportunities that are offered in America. I'm not an immigrant, but i enjoyed how this book spoke to Americans, encouraging me to "think like an immigrant" and to continue exploring opportunity wherever I might find it. Cool read. Happy travels!
Impressive
2009-11-25 - The achievements documented in this book are impressive. Immigrants co-founded half the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley and a quarter of the biotech companies in New England. Immigrants are more likely than other Americans to launch companies and to obtain patents. Intel, co-founded by Hungarian immigrant Andrew Grove, employs 90,000 people, while Google, co-founded by Russian immigrant Sergey Brin, employs 20,000. An immigrant from India, Vinod Khosla, co-founded Sun Microsystems. The CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, is Indian-born. News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch is an immigrant from Australia. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang, an immigrant from Taiwan; Paypal by Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa; eBay by Pierre Omidyar, an immigrant from France.
The authors focus on a few lesser-known immigrant success stories and tell them in some detail. There are Te-Ming Chiang, an immigrant from Taiwan, and Ric Fulop, an immigrant from Venezuela, who founded the battery-maker A123, which powers Black & Decker's professional power tools. There is Monte Ahuja, an immigrant from India who started working as a ditch-digger and sleeping on a cot at a Y in Cleveland, then founded Transtar Industries, which he built into the world's largest seller of transmission parts, with 1,800 employees and $500 million in annual revenues.
There is Farouk Shami, who was the most successful hairdresser in Ramallah, in the West Bank, and who after coming to America founded a shampoo, hair dye, and nail polish company with $1 billion a year in revenues. And Quy "Charlie" Ton, an immigrant from Vietnam whose more than 1,000 Regal Nails outlets are America's largest chain of nail salons.
Why the success? To some degree, immigrants are a self-selecting group. "To immigrate is an entrepreneurial act," the authors quote Edward Roberts, founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, as saying.
Expanding immigration and overhauling immigration law seems to lag behind the Obama administration's other priorities, such as "stimulus," health care, financial regulation, and carbon reduction. But the authors make a case that changes to immigration laws could help close the federal deficit by creating more growth and more taxpayers, adding between $66 billion and $100 billion to federal revenues over 10 years. In the end judgments about immigration policy will, or should, turn less on calculations about the federal fisc and more on assessments of America's national character as a refuge and a place where newcomers can innovate and build new lives, as have the contemporary characters whose stories are so compellingly told in this book.
