Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by dandelany on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:33PM (#13860145)

> Hey, you know what countries I don't see on that startup founder list? Mexico, ...

Looking at >$1B businesses only, as this story does, presents a rather skewed perspective. Per Fiscal Policy Institute "there are nonetheless more small business owners from Mexico than from any other single country... Immigrants born in Mexico make up 12 percent of immigrant small business owners, followed by immigrants born in India, Korea, Cuba, China, and Vietnam." http://fiscalpolicy.org/immigrant-small-business-owners-FPI-...

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by jessriedel on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:46PM (#13860305)

But 26.9% of immigrants in the US are from Mexico (as of 2015), which dwarfs the next largest country of origin India at 5.5%. Furthermore, the Mexican fraction was even larger in the past.

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/larg...

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