Category: Southern California

September 25, 2019

When John Diskin and Rita M. Capponi moved to Palm Springs with dreams of opening a restaurant, they didn’t imagine…

June 19, 2019

Don McPeck started his business with only an idea. His gourmet food truck, Mess Hall Canteen, got started thanks to…

April 24, 2019

Meredith Pizzi started playing trumpet in the fifth grade and joined her school’s jazz band. It was after a performance…

January 30, 2019

Angela Bicos Mavridis, a San Marino, California resident, comes from an entrepreneurial family. Her father owned a drive-thru that served…

October 24, 2018

Manuel Guerrero grew up surrounded by a family of entrepreneurs. He embraced this spirit and chose to pursue his entrepreneurial…

August 29, 2018

Marcia Charles has worked in fashion for her whole life. When Marcia was 15-years-old, she started working at department store…

July 19, 2018

Civic San Diego provided Accion San Diego, a nonprofit microlender, $400,000 in lending capital from the Civic San Diego Loan…

May 18, 2018

Andrew McDowell was laying on the beach in Cancun, reading My Business, My Mission – the story of businessmen and…

June 1, 2016

August 20, 2015

Despite having run two successful restaurants, banks considered Paul LaRocco's pizzeria "too new" because he was self-employed. Thankfully, Pacific Coast…