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Amrit Resort & Residences and Four Seasons Ocean Residences By NICK KAYE Published: July 6, 2007 DETAILS Singer Island, on the east coast of Florida less than 10 miles north of Palm Beach, is separated from the mainland by the Lake Worth Lagoon, a section of the Intracoastal Waterway. Read More… Bringing the spa experience home POSTED: 1458 GMT (2258 HKT), October 18, 2006 By Julie Clothier for CNN (CNN) -- Between his day job as a venture capitalist and as a father of 10 and 12-year-old children, Ravi Ugale fits the odd yoga class into his schedule when he can. Read More…
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Imported Entrepreneurs

They're not on the Best 200 list and may never get there, but these three immigrants have shown that America is still the land of opportunity. Conventional wisdom has it that you can't make money running public housing projects, that ghetto businesses are more headache than they are worth and that small farmers are doomed. If the three immigrant entrepreneurs whose stories follow thought that way, they wouldn't have been able to build the thriving businesses that they have. There was something in their experience that enabled them to see opportunity where no one else could. And, of cours...
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Keepers of the Dream – Success of Dilip Barot has been published in Reader’s Digest

America has always been a magnet for talented entrepreneurs. It still is. Keepers of the Dream By Richard Miniter   Dilip Barot, from Gujarat, India, was trained as a pharmacist, but learned within days of landing in the United States that he would have to start at the bottom. He went to work for another Gujarati at a motel in New Jersey for $ 100 a week. A year later he got a job as a pharmacy intern. Then he read in an Indian-American newspaper that the 18-unit Rock Garden in Riviera Beach, Florida, was for sale. The modest motel needed expensive repairs and a hefty down payment...
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