Today we’d like to introduce you to Vanessa Duran.
Hi Vanessa, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I come from a real entrepreneurial family on my mother’s side. I can credit my maternal grandfather for lighting up the entrepreneurial spirit in me at a very early age. He supported my first enterprise, which was a mango business. I picked mangoes from the trees in our backyard and sold them at school for 100% profit. There is no better business than that. After seeing my business interest, my grandfather motivated me to partner with him and buy cattle for raising using my mango business profits. My mother, who served as an accountant for large conglomerates in Colombia, helped me practice my reading skills by talking through accounting reports at age eight. And after school, playtime included helping my mom reconcile bank accounts with the big accounting books used before the software age.
Later as an adult and after college, I lived in New York, where I consulted publicly-traded companies on capital markets. It was exciting working closely with the Investor Relations team for publicly traded domestic and international companies such as Domino’s Pizza, Popeyes Chicken, France Telecom and Merck, to help drive value to their stock. Fascinated by the impact that small businesses have on the South Florida economy, I moved to Miami in 2009, inspired to fill a void for business owners underserved in management consulting and in need of financial expertise. I developed the DCC business model for growing small businesses to have access to experienced accounting and finance expertise that can be seamlessly and cost-efficiently outsourced. Now, I am fulfilling my dream of working with local small businesses and businesses embarking on the road to scale, making sure to form the ecosystem necessary for our small business community to thrive.
We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I first moved to Miami in 2000 from Colombia, and though I already possessed the language, which was a great plus, making the city and the country home for me wasn’t easy. I worked multiple jobs to be able to pay for college. My college years were very challenging. My routine looked something like this: working a 9-5 job, evening college courses, library until almost morning and then work again. I also had to keep weekend jobs to be able to pay for my international student fees. I just remember being tired the entire time. But its been well worth it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
DCC Accounting exists because we are inspired by small business owners’ entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose of making corporate-level accounting and financial expertise available to small businesses everywhere aligns with that. We provide an integrated suite of services that support entrepreneurs from idea generation to business growth and scale. What truly makes us unique is the human factor. When there is software automating many tasks, handling your clients’ relationships is the key differentiating factor. We make sure our clients are at the center of our process and feel it and make us an integral part of theirs. This creates a real difference, and we believe this is a big part of our own clients’ success.
What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
For me, the essential qualities align with DCC Accounting & Business Consulting core values: expertise and reliability while ensuring an all-around commitment to the vision.
Contact Info:
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- Website: https://dccaccounting.com/
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