By Cyndia Zwahlen
When Greg Stone flies his model airplanes in Irvine at Orange County Great Park — fittingly on the site of the former El Toro Marine...
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: My kids are signed up for day camps this summer. How else can I keep them busy while working at home?
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: You answered a question about getting an IRS notice. What if you're being audited?
By Cyndia Zwahlen
Kevin Reynolds is hoping for a long, hot summer.
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: I'm starting a business. What can I do myself and when do I need a lawyer?
By Cyndia Zwahlen
It took all of three minutes for the hacker to break into the small accounting firm's computer system.
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times
Major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small businesses are signing up to give their workers health...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
The coffee beans roasted, ground, packaged and shipped out of the F. GaviƱa & Sons Inc. factory in Vernon are as diverse as the...
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
The job: Advocating in Sacramento for small companies. Hauge is president of Small Business California, a San Francisco...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
On the third Sunday of each month, a dozen or so people pedal out of Highland Park atop steel-frame bikes straight out of the Chinese...
By Roger Vincent
The gig: Founder and principal of Levin & Associates Architects, a Los Angeles firm that specializes in historic building...
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: My firm helps start-ups with marketing strategies. How can we reach them early on, before our competitors do?
By Scott Gold
The little tortilleriatortilleria, hidden away in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood near Watts, could be mistaken for a...
By Emili Vesilind
ANE CRABTREE, a costume designer and stylist, was on location in Bulgaria when a professional chef e-mailed to say she'd be happy to give...
By Cyndia Zwahlen
It started with a $10 tote.
By Betty Hallock
Meet the new Willy Wonka: Timothy Childs is a former space shuttle technologist who's building a 29,000-square-foot chocolate factory on...
By Cyndia Zwahlen
For many small-business owners, it can seem as though federal bureaucrats do little more than churn out reams of mind-numbing regulations...
By Cyndia Zwahlen
Gabrielle DeSantis-Cummings and Monica Hillman are on the hunt for about $250,000 to quickly expand their small company, Gigi Hill, which...