By Roxanne Hack, California Business Journal. Genuine, innovative, adaptable and strategic. That describes Ryan and Kara Garland, the creators of Paradyme Funding, a new and novel crowdfunding real estate and finance platform that helps investors make a momentous shift into smart, authentic investments. The firm currently services 200-300
By Susan Belknapp, California Business Journal. There is the Major-League Baseball Hall of Fame, the NFL Hall of Fame and the NBA Hall of Fame. But the Estate-Planning Hall of Fame? Who would have thought? Well, as surprising as that is, there is an Estate-Planning Hall of Fame. There
By Eve Gumpel, California Business Journal. Developing new drugs can take as much as 15 years and billions of dollars before a medication is available to help patients combat their disease. No one knows this more than James G. Evans, Ph.D., CEO and founder of Phenovista
By Eve Gumpel, California Business Journal. When an executive recruiter told Julia Erdkamp she was selling herself short, Erdkamp took the observation to heart. “Your skill set and what you bring to the table really need to be at the top-level executive rank,” the woman told
By Susan Belknapp, California Business Journal. An alliance between some of the world’s foremost physicians, scientists, engineers, associations, government and non-Governmental Agencies dedicated to rapid introduction of game-changing therapeutics and diagnostics for brain and spine disorders has been formed by the Brain Mapping Foundation (BMF) and
By Nicole Knight, California Business Journal. Imagine squeezing savings out of city infrastructure while drastically shrinking the energy footprint. This is what energy and wastewater efficiency expert Schneider Electric delivers throughout California and across the country. Helping a roster of public sector clients—including cities, counties and schools—to tackle
By Eve Gumpel, California Business Journal. Bill Shepard has served as CEO and Chief Operating Officer in companies as diverse NordicTrac, Gap, Philips Electronics, Cole National and Pacific Linen. He has also served as an interim COO since 1999 and worked as a C-Suite coach and
By Leslie Hughes, California Business Journal. Look out CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post and the rest of the extreme left-leaning, very liberal media world. Here comes Vito Glazers. Glazers is in the midst of another film project, this one about President Donald Trump and the people
By Joshua Denne, Special to California Business Journal. They say more business is done on the golf course than anywhere else. I would put it another way: You can learn everything you need to know about a potential business partner by playing golf with them. Why?
By Victoria Kertz, California Business Journal Last summer, a reported one in five samples of marijuana products grown in California failed standard safety testing. Infractions ranged from the presence of pesticides to improper labeling, but the most alarming discovery was of mold and the contaminants that
By Victoria Kertz, California Business Journal. Bears, bulls, recessions and bubbles. Wealth advisor Dr. Guy Baker has seen them all. A veteran of the financial services industry, he has ridden the market’s roller coaster so many times that it no longer makes him nauseous. He’s helped
Frazzled Franchisees and Franchisors Find Their Savior in DCV Franchise Group. By Leslie Hughes, California Business Journal The world of franchising is saturated with struggles. However, there is a solution to avert the maddening complexities struggles: DCV Franchise Group, a renowned consulting firm known for seamlessly guiding
Before Chad Willardson launched Pacific Capital, he focused on what clients really wanted from their financial advisor and how they could best be served. What he discovered is that being an independent fiduciary was not only “the best option” but “the only option.” By Leslie Hughes,
Most job seekers, including both recent college graduates and working professionals, encounter challenges when seeking a job change. Here are 10 specific challenges job seekers face and the reasons such obstacles arise. By Aditya Sharma, Special to California Business Journal Abundance of competitors: The overall number
Project Insight, a leading project management solution, is morphing into an inclusive system that incorporates multiple platforms and is taking work automation and aggregation efficiency to the next level. By Susan Belknapp, California Business Journal [caption id="attachment_11096" align="alignleft" width="1080"] Steve West, CEO and co-founder, of Project Insight[/caption] Software
By Susan Belknapp, California Business Journal Special education, advocacy for the learning challenged, school discipline, adoption, assisted reproduction, juvenile delinquency – these subjects aren’t usually front of mind when thinking about legal specializations. But Meldie Moore, founder and principal of Moore Law for Children in Laguna Beach,
By Ashleigh Ruhl, California Business Journal. When an elderly person’s children steal from them, potentially leaving them without the financial means to care for themselves, one solution — albeit a tough one — is for that parent to sue their own kin. That’s the harsh reality attorney
From California Business Journal Newswire. According to California law, a felony amounts to a crime for which you can be imprisoned for over a year. These crimes are considered to be the most serious of the three basic types of crime—Infractions, Misdemeanours and Felonies. These types