Stephen Morano he departed, with his wife and children, from Buenos Aires to Miami in 2016. He has marketing and advertising consultancies in Argentina and the idea was to expand this by involving clients in the United States. The plan didn’t work and five years later he launched a platforms for interested Latinos settle or invest in the United States. waiting to charge $1 million next year.

Morano told COUNTRY who spent six months analyzing and “thinking over” his idea to expand his company from Miami. “I concluded that it was impossible,” he said. The specialty is very different and the way is to structure here. It is a ‘speciality’ and working in Argentina will not work”.

After leaving the initiative behind, he utilized what he had learned from his own migration experience as a family and what he had brought from marketing and advertising from Argentina to promote a platform project for a unifying Spanish-speaking community who wish to live or invest in the United States.

“We saw it unexploited segment. Experiences and surveys disclosed to us that he 90% of those looking to move or thinking about business want to change what they are doing in another country, and this will most likely not work. The best thing is to study, know the necessary conditions, establish contacts,” he said.

think in the world born five years ago with a investment of US$ 20,000. Besides that of Morano is three partners, two from Argentina and one from Bolivia. His goal from the start was to be a “liaison, meeting facilitator” for those interested in professionals in various fields. Currently they are at average 50,000 visits per month.

Among the available “specialties” are real estate, migration, health, education, relocation, business, tax, investment, and healthcare. “We do not recommend professionals -said Morano-. We are a bridge for interested parties to know and take the right decision”.

He The platform’s funding varies. It has revenue from the sale of the documents it produces, from the payment of registered professionals, from the organization of seminars and from the purchase of subscriptions by individuals or companies which, depending on the category, allow different levels of consultations and even discounts. .

“We are a conduit for Google -defined Morano-. Professionals join monthly, even from areas outside of Miami and from all disciplines. None of which are not covered. For Invest and do business in the United States no collector, if done wrong, it will be very expensive to fix the problem, therefore information is the key”.

Platform statistics show that 60% of queries focused on migration and 40% on pure investment. One thing to keep in mind is, from this second group, most of those who are interested in “leaving the door open” to get an investment visa in the future should they so decide. When talking about business, real estate and franchising were the two items that generated the most interest.

The issues that raise the most questions are taxes, the procedure for setting up a company, while there are many questions about what type of investment is appropriate based on the objective (direct income; income plus capitalization; capital protection).

Regarding the country of origin of the question, Argentina is the “constant”, followed generally by Mexico and Colombia. Then, depending on their political-economic circumstances, Peru and Bolivia were accommodated. Every six months, the platform organizes a seminar on a specific topic -the next seminar will be held in August, face to face, in Colombia and on investment-.

“Currently there is still no platform like us. Yes, there is a lot of desire, but not the kind of inter-professional networking we promote because, in fact, our goal is for everyone to do well ”, Summarizes Morano.