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Immigrant brothers excel through hard work, good practices

Before arriving here at age 16, Vito Tishenko knew Vancouver as a speck on the map his family kept at their home in the former Soviet Union’s Georgia region.

But it was different from all the map’s other specks. It was the place his grandfather Yuri Savinskiy would point to and say, “Some day, we are going to live there.”

Twenty-one years later, Vito Tishenko owns a Vancouver-based construction contracting firm, Exteriors Design, which takes on projects as small as replacing siding and as large as installing wrought-iron deck rails on Portland condominium towers. His brother Mark, 10 years younger, owns Edge IT, a small firm that provides networking computer support for offices in the Portland area and as far away as Florida.

The business success stories of the Tishenko brothers are tales of pluck and hard work, the old-fashioned values of fiscal conservatism and of turning to friends, family, and community for connections and support. Like many immigrants in America’s rich history, they’ve relied heavily on instinct and the school of hard knocks: Vito has only a high school education, and Mark has attended both Clark College and Washington State University Vancouver, without a degree from either.

Their recent accomplishments all came in the face of an economic downturn that has waylaid untold numbers of small businesses, especially in the construction industry where Vito has made his way.

Among the fruits of the family’s success is Vito’s new home on Camas’ Prune Hill, built for his family that includes wife Natalya and three children ages 12, 5, and 7 months. “My dream was to own a house by the time I was 40, and that’s only two years away,” Vito says.

For Mark, the fourth-oldest of five siblings, life as a parent has just begun. He and his wife settled into a Columbia waterfront condo in Vancouver, moving back from Portland just in time for the birth in July of their first child, a son. “I don’t plan on leaving,” Mark says.

The Tishenkos work in the same office building, where each brother learns from the other’s business strengths and weaknesses. Two years ago, they launched a collaborative venture, a company called Celestial Products that sold low-cost caskets and urns. The idea was inspired in part by the need for low-cost caskets they saw among congregation members in the Slavic Evangelical Church they attend, and where their father is pastor. But the business distracted them from their own companies, so they sold majority ownership to a married couple from their church who were expanding their own wood products business.

Computer Repair industry in 911 mode.. | Portland Computer Repair ...

Welcome smart phone..

First it was email, then simple but limited browsing.. Now.. Well what cant you do on a smart phone.. I can browse the web, play full flash games even connect wirelessly  to my vehicle engine. And what this means for your local computer repair guys.. Well its not good news.

Now for the most part its cheaper to toss your computer then to fix it, for $500.00 you can get the latest and greatest. Holiday sales give you the best prices and as a result repair shops are closing all over the country.

For me... this is a time of transition... Back to website design as a full time job... I am still here for your computer repair needs I will always be able to do that.. But in order to stay in business we have to spread out our skills.

I now offer

Full website design starting at $500.00

Website Redesign starting at $350.00

Website hosting plans starting at $3.95 a month

Plus my normal range of services..

I guess it would be good to remind people I work on macs too..

To the Mac Force guys.. wow you will be missed.. See you around town.

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