
Who is
Claudia Mirza
Entrepreneurship
Women-Owned Businesses in Texas
June 27, 2017
Striving and Thriving in Today’s Economy Texas appears at or near the top of most “best of” lists for its business friendliness. But it’s also a great location for an increasing number of women-owned enterprises. Women play a huge role in the U.S. labor force,recently accountin
Entrepreneurship
Five DFW Firms Named to Nation’s 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned Companies List
March 9, 2017
Two of the five re-entered the list after experiencing revenue spikes. Five Dallas-Fort Worth entrepreneurs have been honored for leading some of the fastest growing women-owned or women-led companies in the nation. Nina Vaca of Dallas-based Pinnacle Group, Kay Ivie of Flower Mound-based Ivie
Entrepreneurship
Akorbi CEO Claudia Mirza Honored as ‘Entrepreneurial Winning’ Woman
March 9, 2017

Chief executive runs world’s fastest-growing language services provider. CEO Claudia Mirza, who grew up surrounded by violence in Medellin, Colombia, was recognized Thursday by EY for her Dallas-based company Akorbi, the fastest-growing language services provider in the world. Mirza was named
Entrepreneurship
Seeing Opportunity Where Others Don’t
March 9, 2017

“All my life, I was very passionate about content. I’m very creative, and I love making things beautiful. I saw in the 2000 census data that the minority population was growing in the U.S., and the Hispanic population was skyrocketing. But then I saw media with very bad content in Spanish. I sai
Entrepreneurship
Exclusive: These Are the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Companies in the U.S
March 9, 2017
Ellen Latham never thought her love of fitness would result in owning one of the fastest-growing businesses in the United States. Latham, who owns a boutique fitness chain called Orangetheory, has snagged the No. 1 spot the annual ranking of the fastest growing women-owned or led businesses released
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Colombian in Texas
March 9, 2017

Claudia Mirza is literally one of the best Americans alive. As such, this week she met Donald J. Trump to discuss immigration and taxes. Claudia also met Ivanka Trump, an encounter she described thusly (translated from Spanish): “Based on everything I’d heard about her in the media and p
Entrepreneurship
Why Immigrant Women Make Great Entrepreneurs
March 9, 2017
