| Immigrant entrepreneur: | Yasir Shirazi |
| Company: | InstaKin |
| Place of birth: | Pakistan |
| Employees: | 14 |
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Yasir came from Pakistan to study in college and earn his M.B.A degree. He launched 2 other business ventures but kept on a lookout for something more creative and meaningful.
He kept noticing that he’s running into the same problems on a regular basis. Taking care of business back home while being overseas was somehow extremely difficult to do and manage. There were constantly issues and delays obtaining legal documents from back home, to sending funds, to taking care of regular business.
After doing some market research, he realized that many other immigrants were in fact running into the same issues. He was not alone.
His creative mind kicked in and he found a solution to his problems along with all the other immigrants. He launched, InstaKin.
InstaKin can take of your business needs while being overseas. They can even take care of flower arrangements and plan a wedding! The sky is the limit with InstaKin and they’re constantly expanding with their services and markets.
Yasir provides some invaluable advice to all immigrants who want to thrive as an entrepreneur!
Quotes by Yasir
The beauty of internet is, if you do it right, if you put in the hours, if you come up with an idea that people can resonate with, you will see traction.
At least 70% of the people that reach out to us, they don’t reach out to us through advertising they reach out to us through referrals.
We want to focus more on community outreach and less on marketing.
I like to read as much as I can.
If someone is a migrant and an entrepreneur, chances are you will be making a lot of mistakes.
The most important thing is, in terms of experiences, failures, mistakes, you have to be able to persevere.
The outcome of a mistake should be the ability to learn from it and minimize the chances of making the same mistake the second time.
We make mistakes all the time.
There is some correlation between risk and immigrants.
You can’t give up.
Just do it!
What’s the worst that can happen?
As long as you are concrete, you are specific, you have some goals set, you have some milestones set, you will see start to some value come out of it.
