Category: Success Stories

SteelCraft

A New Urban Eatery Bixby Knolls, Long Beach Client Impact: Obtained $150k loan Started eight new businesses Created 60 new jobs When Kimberly Gros first

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Go Green Solar

Founder of GoGreenSolar.com Finds a Market and Becomes the Go-to Authority GoGreenSolar.com isn’t even through this year’s first quarter, but the green-energy products company has

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I Like PIE Bakeshop

It all started with a passion, an idea, and pie! On November 11, 2012 it came into fruition when Annika and Robert Corbin opened their

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Client Success Story: Pepe’s Inc

Congratulations to our client, Pepe’s, Inc, for being recognized by Hispanic Lifestyle as a Hispanic Business that has “Survived and Thrived”. Pepe’s Towing Service was

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WHEY COCO, Orange County SBDC Video Success Story

Mike Daniel is the network director of the Orange County Inland Empire SBDC Network, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs and current business owners throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Mike was formerly the director of the SBDC office at Long Beach City College. As business owner and entrepreneur himself, he started his career as the owner of a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory location in Manhattan Beach and went on to open a second location in Long Beach in 2001. In 2007, Mike sold the Manhattan Beach store for an above-market offer then invested in several additional locations as a minority shareholder. Mike further expanded his candy empire with venture located in Shoreline Village in Long Beach called Sugar Daddies Sweet Shoppe, based on fill-it yourself candy options.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.