The children of Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs are beginning to run the now-booming businesses their parents built from scratch after making their home in Houston
Tagged: children, Houston, parents, Professor, TexasPosted on: May 15th, 2007“All grown up, the Mendez siblings and the children of other Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs who came to Houston a few decades ago are beginning to run the now-booming businesses their parents founded.
“All the growth of the last 25 years in Houston has been from immigrants. They came in, and they came to work,” said Stephen Klineberg, a Rice University professor of sociology. “They just have tremendous entrepreneurial ambition and commitment to hard work.”
The entrepreneurs among them worked long hours and built money-transfer firms, meat markets, restaurant chains like Doneraki and Taquerias Arandas, and the frame firm.”
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