Nearly one-third of CA. business owners are foreign born
Immigrant entrepreneurs
Nearly one-third of California's business owners are foreign-born
By Leslie Berestein
STAFF WRITER
November 15, 2008
As a practicing physician in her native China, Naishu Wang had a keen interest in early diagnosis as a means of saving lives. But it wasn't until she arrived in the United States more than two decades ago that this interest took the shape of a business.
"In the United States, small business is kind of encouraged," said Naishu Wang, a Chinese immigrant and owner of Alfa Scientific Designs in Poway, which produces medical in-vitro diagnostic devices for blood and other lab tests.
“When I came here, I didn't have a business mind,â€