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| Immigrant Entrepreneur: | Maria Orozova |
| Company: | MODIntelechy |
| Place of birth: | Bulgaria |
| Employees: | 25 |
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Maria was born in a communist country, Bulgaria where food was scare and buying anything was extremely difficult. She remembers people having to stand in the bread line for hours just because of the limited supply of food.
Her family immigrated when she was 11 years old and she went on to study marketing and graphic communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her journey to entrepreneurship started when she was only 25 years old. With a lot of risk at hand, she went full force to get her company launched.
She remembers putting in way too many hours in the beginning, but it was all she ever wanted to do.
She’s now worked with clients like Dell Computers, Lexus, AT&T, Four Seasons Private Residences and Indeed to name a few. Her company merged with her husband in 2018 and during COVID, they thrived.
Quotes by Maria
I’m super thankful to be profitable at month 1.
We traveled with our laptops. We’re always working.
I love to read a lot, that’s what inspires me and that’s how I learn.
I would wake up in the middle of the night and send some emails. We worked all the time. There was no such thing as a lunch break.
Networking was really helpful for our business.
Being out and about, was fulfilling and was really helpful to expand our service offerings and meeting new people.
The more people know that what you do and specialize in, you increase your chances of getting those referral sources.
The more connections you have, and the more people that know you, the better the likelihood of you being able to get connected to a prospect, or a friend or a non-profit.
I don’t know if you’re ever prepared, you just do it and you do your best.
I read all the books.
I have been reading everything I can get my hands on.
You can literally be anything, all it takes is hard work, obviously a little bit of luck and having the mindset that you can accomplish anything.
Just the possibilities of being able to be whoever you want to be and be as successful as you possibly want, you can do here in America and I think that is so powerful.
Don’t give up, if that’s a dream that you have just go for it.
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