Timothy Helgeson is a digital artist living and working in the Napa, California and owner of Fractal Spirit Arts. His award-winning art has shown in San Francisco at the Blue Gallery, Galleria de la Raza, the Mexican Museum, Saint Mary's Cathedral, and various places in the Napa Valley. His line of cards is sold nationally. He has been featured on the cover of the New Age magazine, "Bodhi Tree Book Review," and was a Burning Man artist. His work is in the collections of celebrities including: Julie Harris, Burt Reynolds, Charles Nelson Reilly, Boz Skaggs, Steve Halpern, Dennis Kuchinich, and Robin Williams.
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Rejuvenation & Well Being is a holistic bodywork and nutritional counseling business located in the small town of Cotati, CA. Initially the owner was a Jin Shin Jyutsu (holistic body work) practitioner and her entire revenue stream was her fee for service private practice. The business model has shifted over the past two years. Currently, the business is primarily a nutritional counseling business that derives a significant amount of revenue from product sales. Jin Shin Jyutsu provides a small amount of revenue and is a far second to the nutritional counseling business.
Company Profile - Net-Flow Corporation is a technology business that provides a range of customized options for Web hosting, E-Business design and development, and network/IT support and consultation for small to medium-sized businesses. Beginning in 2003 and continuing throughout 2004, owner Dean Bowen developed a new series of low cost products -marketed to small businesses- that streamline customer relationships, internet marketing and internet commerce through technology applications. Located in Napa, CA the company was founded in 1995 by Dean Bowen and has enjoyed modest success during and after the boom and bust of Silicon Valley’s “Dot.Coms.”
Company Profile: Guillermo Espinoza Mendoza has been in the tile distribution and retail industry for more than 15 years. His Mexican company, Copa de la Piedad, is a very successful distribution company and has many retail storefronts in Mexico. Wanting to expand the U.S. distribution of glazed and unglazed floor tile and ceramic mosaics, and unglazed quarry tile, Mendoza set up shop in San Jose. The Tile Warehouse offers a comprehensive line of tile products in a range of colors, textures and finishes from manufacturers in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, and Asia.
Ms. Ranger is a former technical writer for Sun Microsystems. After the 2001 tech bubble collapse she wanted to develop a business that was low stress, meaningful and helped people. She was referred to the SBDC by a satisfied SBDC client, Hans Schmitt of Dance Sport in San Jose. With her training and expertise in massage therapy she eventually set up her business in Los Gatos and shared office space with a chiropractor.
Ted Sheets has been making signs since 1984. In 2006 he began to look at the possibility of moving out of his garage, which was full to the rafters. Ted wanted to expand his sign business and started looking at sign franchise opportunities. But he didn’t know how to tell if it was a good deal or not. How much cash would he need, and what was the monthly break even?
When the opportunity first came up in 2006 to buy The Forks Lounge in Willow Creek, in Northern California, Kim Walker and Steve Martinez were very excited. When they started to look for financing, however, they were less confident in their abilities to complete a business plan that lenders would find acceptable. Even though they had both worked in business for a number of years, the commercial loan process was something entirely new.
