Downtown LA 10.2.2017

William Beauter and Jess Mullen-Carey

Jess and I first got together to discuss some ideas we had for furniture and products in the evenings after work. Very shortly thereafter a couple of guys working in the advertising world approached us about helping them design a wine bar concept, and we thought it would be fun to work on with them. Read more>>

Davis Krumins

I’ve always been drawn to anything related to design. Whether creating a painting with my fingers, collecting vintage artifacts from thrift stores, or drawing floor plans with Auto Cad, I love it all. My belief is that there is a common link between all design disciplines. A tattoo artist can have as much impact as a painter. Read more>>

Bei Bei He

I have taught hundreds of students of all ages since, and many of them are performing locally at cultural events. I am so grateful to be able to pursue what I love and I am excited to take on new opportunities and adventures that life brings me. Read more>>

Luis Garcia

Our vision for helping kids reach their potential through education first took shape when co-founder and CEO Luis Garcia spent 5 months exploring and volunteering at schools and orphanages. He realized the kids were like millions of others worldwide — eager for an education but lacking basic school supplies. Read more>>

Michelle Michelson

I had no idea this industry existed before I got started. I was working at Apple as a Genius, and a customer walked in who needed help with his MacBook battery. This one customer started a journey that I’ve been on for the past five years. He opened the door to this world of teleprompting that has taken me to three continents, had me work with world leaders, celebrities and brilliant minds of our century. Read more>>

Lemy Argueta

Lemy Argueta has worked in Spanish language media for over 20 years. He began his career in media sales with Telemundo TV Network in 1992. In 1994, he joined Heftel Broadcasting (KLVE/KTNQ) radio as a marketing consultant. In 1997, Lemy became sales manager at Spanish Broadcasting Systems (KLAX/KXOL), one of the largest Spanish radio companies in the U.S. Read more>>

Margaret Brown

The year was 2008, I was living in NY at the time of my ‘big idea’. I had a mediocre job with little personal satisfaction. I wanted MORE out of my career. I was in my mid-twenties, single, and loving life. My career was my focus, and I was super unsatisfied and BORED. One day while walking down 6th Ave I had the idea ‘I am going to start my own company’. Read more>>

Richard Castaneda

Myself, my wife and my oldest daughter Rauna Campbell started the company in 1991 targeting fishing travel to Southern Baja California from Loreto to La Paz, to East Cape to San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. Our goal was to be able to package a fishing trip together as much as the fisherman needed such as including airfare, hotel and providing charter fishing boats. Read more>>

Kenneth Wu

I grew up in LA, went to school here, college, and worked here. Or in other words, I’m an Angeleno! In 2001, the dot com bubble burst and I found myself without a job in the IT industry. Out of necessity, I started my first business. I was very lucky and we did very well, I made my first million within a few years before I was 30. Read more>>

Tom Stanley

When I was a kid, I used to steal the family National Geographic and read to cover to cover, then put it back in its brown wrapper and back into the mail box. Believe me, it wasn’t just for the nudie pictures. I wanted to be there. Anywhere. In the wildest parts of Africa, the mountains of the Himalayas and the deep rainforests of Pacific Islands. Read more>>

Scott Buscemi

At the ripe age of 15, I started building sites for family friends under the name “Scott Websites”. Quite the creative name, indeed! After successfully building a site for a band and a few businesses, I was starting to get more and more familiar with website development and learned about these things called “content management systems”. Read more>>

Christian Toscano

I became interested in pregnancy and childbirth in my early 20’s when some of my friends started to have babies. As a young woman my connection to birth was through fear and lacked understanding of this process. I knew media’s depiction of birth was a dramatization, however I had no real life connection to it and believed that this portrayal couldn’t be far off. Read more>>

Noemi Smith

I am a lover of the Arts since I was a little girl. I started my art career by drawing and painting just as a hobby. I was a student of Technical Design and worked for several years doing ACAD Computer Technical Drawings in my country Peru. I never had the opportunity to show my artistic skills, until I came to live in the United States in 2005. Read more>>

Areg Jerahian

I began with an unconditional trait to strive and to succeed with every bone in my body, and without a doubt encountered every negative obstacle any entrepreneur could ever fathom. At fourteen, I attended Glendale High School without the slightest clue of what subject interested me most. Like any other young hustler, I had the innate ability to find high in demand (or unique) products and to sell them with a higher markup to make some cash on the side. Read more>>