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Two sisters wanted a healthy arepa food brand, so they built one
Mafe and Coco Cabezas’ homesickness inspired them to launch Toast-It.
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How a high school class helped this man build one of the largest Hispanic-owned financial firms in the country
Martin Cabrera’s career in investment banking began in high school with The Stock Market Game.
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She created a sugar-free Mexican candy for her diabetic father. Now she's sold more than $4M worth of it
Opening her father’s sugar-free candy cabinet made Annie Leal realize there was a lack of healthier Mexican sweets at grocery stores.
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How this woman turned a sugar-free candy into a million-dollar business
Annie Leal shares her journey from marketing executive to candy entrepreneur.
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How this nightclub promoter became one of baseball's biggest agents
Rafa Nieves was watching the MTV Video Music Awards when he got an idea that would help him combine two of his talents: baseball and hospitality.
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This woman turned her teenage insecurity into a multimillion-dollar hair care line Chappell Roan uses
Julissa Prado took her skills as the “curl whisperer” for high school classmates to founder of Rizos Curls.
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How this woman created the curly hair care formula Chappell Roan and Thalía love
Julissa Prado was frustrated with the lack of curly hair care products at stores like Target growing up. Now, her brand, Rizos Curls, is sold at Target stores around the country.
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This entrepreneur wanted a Latino SXSW festival, so he made one
From his start as a chemist to becoming one of the country’s leading Latino entrepreneurs, here’s how Gary Acosta helped dozens of Latinos start their entrepreneurship journeys.
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How this man helped build the SXSW for Latinos
SXSW is an annual conference that spotlights tech, music and culture in Austin, Texas. When Gary Acosta attended his first SXSW conference, he was blown away by the number of connections attendees made. That inspired Acosta to make a version of the festival that brought Latino changemakers together.
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This English teacher started his business with two $500 prepaid debit cards. Now it's an $8 million company
When Mario Carrasco was a high school English teacher, he never thought a career change would leading him to heading a multimillion-dollar company.
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He turned two $500 prepaid debit cards into an $8M business. Here's how he did it
Mario Carrasco was frustrated with his job as a high school English teacher when he decided to Google what kinds of jobs one could do with a literature degree. The search results sparked the idea for his $8-million market research firm.
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This surgeon wants to change the way we do urgent care in the US
Ever wanted to be able to reach your doctor with just one click? Here’s how this orthopedics doctor is changing how we receive urgent care.
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How this surgeon wants to reinvent the American urgent care center
After spending years as an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Alejandro Badia was tired of seeing patients come to him after an unproductive urgent care visit. Badia is trying to make specialized urgent care easier and faster to get with OrthoNOW.
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This engineer went from selling food packaging to Subway to creating his own Mexican food brand
From making delivery-only products to selling in stores nationwide, here’s the story behind the top-selling SOMOS foods.
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How these entrepreneurs are changing ready-to-eat Mexican products in US grocery stores
After working for the snack bar company KIND Snacks, Mexican entrepreneur Miguel Leal and his co-founders, Daniel Lubetzky and Rodrigo Zuloaga, decided to launch SOMOS Foods, a line of ready-to-eat Mexican products now available at Whole Foods and Target stores nationwide.
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This art school graduate wanted to read a magazine about Latino executives. So he created one
Today, Hispanic Executive boasts interviews with the likes of politician Julián Castro and actor Zoe Saldana.
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This man wanted to read a magazine about Latino executives in the US, so he created one
In 2007, Pedro Guerrero had an idea: What if he created a premium magazine that told the stories of Latino executives, a small but growing group in the United States?
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This woman went from making bars of soap in her kitchen to selling them at Nordstrom — all with $110K in debt
Sandra Velasquez’s Nopalera products can now be found in Nordstrom stores and more than 400 retail locations across the country. It all started with a simple hobby.
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How this woman went from being $110K in debt to selling her luxury bath products in Nordstrom
When Sandra Velasquez lost her job in 2019, a nopal cactus outside her parents’ home in San Diego held a clue for what she would do next: launch her own line of high-end bath and body products and call it Nopalera.
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