Courtney Welden
I vividly remember fumbling to load film into my first camera. I was 19 years old, waiting on a train in a bustling station in Paris, France. After several failed attempts at loading the film, I desperately asked a stranger for help. During that summer, traipsing around Europe, I discovered my love for photography. Read more>>
Jeff Dillow
I started my career in TV news back in Indiana where I grew up. After 3 years of odd and long hours, my wife & I decided to launch Jeff Dillow Photography. We hit a stroke of luck, by being chosen to offer a Groupon for one-hour family photo sessions. We sold over 100, which gave me the practice I needed to turn a hobby, into a full-time career. Read more>>
Amy Paul
My hubby, Chad, and I opened the shop in 2007 as an art gallery to showcase local artists. I had my studio in back and customers could pier in from a loft space. Art lead in time to more developed vignettes, sofas, side tables and eventually smaller gifts items. Read more>>
Rachel Shemirani
My father, Joe Shemirani, started Barons Market in 1993 with his brothers. I began working at our Point Loma store, in high school, stocking shelves, running the register and cleaning the bathrooms. I worked in our Rancho Bernardo store while attending college as the store assistant manager and moved up to the bay area to work as a marketing coordinator for a corporate immigration law firm for about six years. Read more>>
Kory Stetina
I was exposed to vegetarianism through the punk and hardcore scene in the 90’s, and was vegetarian by age 16 and vegan around 22. In 2009, as a beer/wine/spirit geek fascinated by San Diego’s blossoming craft beer scene, I formed a pop-up named LOVELIKEBEER with a good friend of mine, which created vegan beer pairing dinners to raise money for charity at some of my favorite local establishments. Read more>>
Veronica Castillo, Vanessa Castillo
We are two sisters Vanessa and Veronica that were in the culinary field in search of a unique idea to start a business. We had both been in the culinary industry many years in different capacities perfecting our cooking/baking techniques. Read more>>
Megan Liscomb
I started Soft Lions in late 2013 while I was fronting the band Boy King. In that band I was just a singer, but in my spare time I was writing songs on my own on guitar. I wanted to start a new band to give those songs a place to go. To back me up, I recruited Jon Bonser from The New Kinetics on drums and Lex Pratt from The Very and Wild Wild Wets on keys and backing vocals. Read more>>
Zachary Olbrych
Growing up I felt there too much emphasis placed on education. A good education was needed for a good job if you wanted any chance for a stable income/happy life. While I definitely value financial stability I felt like there were so many other pieces missing. Read more>>
Doug Pizzy
In 1993 I moved from SF to SF, South Florida to San Francisco, CA. About 2 years later a beautiful cat was hanging out on the sidewalk in front of my house for almost a week so I decided I would take him in. I brought him to a local vet for a checkup and while I was there I saw a flyer from a lady who was looking for someone to walk her 11 month old German shepherd mix dog while she was at work. Read more>>
Gerardo Yepiz, Paola Villaseñor, Peter Geise, Larry Cavaney, Gloria Muriel
I got interested in art while I discovered the links between Punk Rock and Skateboarding. Growing up in Ensenada Mexico during the 80’s I felt very isolated, I started corresponding with Punk artists worldwide through fanzines and I was doing cassette trades and other at the time hard to get materials. Read more>>
Frank Mindingall
I was born and raised here in San Diego. I went to Clairemont High School and San Diego State. I lived all around San Diego from East Lake, Chula Vista, Mission Valley, Normal Heights, City Heights, National City, and a couple others I’m forgetting. Read more>>
Paul Herzog, Nicole Zeichick
We started indybooth right after we had our engagement party. When we were planning the party, we were looking for a cool photo booth that captured our hipster North Park sensibilities. We had trouble finding something like that, so we ended up DIYing our own photo booth. Throughout the party, it was a huge hit. Read more>>
Levi Dean
Levi Dean, the band’s singer/songwriter, grew up in Virginia, U.S. and was born into a family of songwriters and artists. He got his first musical instrument from his father as a child and has been playing and writing music ever since. Read more>>
Mike DiAnna
We opened for business on October 28, 1978 under the direction and guidance of Mamma and Pappa DiMille. The recipes for all the menu items were developed by Mamma DiMille which included the same recipes she had learned from her mother and grandmother, and had been cooking for her own family for years. Read more>>
Amanda Cabello
Our business began with our founder Monique Faddis on Park Blvd in a cute little 1 room studio. Monique had worked at many spas before opening her business and quickly saw what worked and what didn’t as well as learned what she wanted in her dream studio that wasn’t already out there. Read more>>
Tomas Hicks
Dirty Pennies was started early 2015 in the Sherman Heights section of San Diego.
It was originally conceived just to be a fun side project, something where friends can play open mics and coffee shops. But as we started to play and develop our original songs together, we realized we had potential to do much more. Read more>>
Jason Feather
AKA is a combination custom screen-printing shop and clothing boutique run by business partners Javi Nunez and myself Jason Feather. We met in 2009 at an art show I was hosting at Disconnected Salon in North Park and we have been friends / business partners ever since. We first joined forces in sharing a studio space where my art company “Art Kills Artists” and his clothing line “Industry Bastards” could split expenses and share a creative space that was not in our apartments. Read more>>
Caleb Minnick
I grew up in a tiny town in Montana called Havre. There was no music scene, very few people knew about stuff that was not on the radio or MTV (which I didn’t even have because my parents blocked it!). I listened to some random things growing up, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, etc. Read more>>
Evan Bennett
About 12 years ago, Anthony Pascale (my business partner) and I were working at neighboring restaurants in the Gaslamp District. I was the executive chef at Aubergine night club and he was the head sushi chef at Visions. We used to get together with our staff every Friday and Saturday night before service at a local bar and see how much we could drink before going back to work to deal with knives and fire. Read more>>
George Thornton
My passion for beer began somewhere around age 14. I was for whatever reason drawn to the culture and history of beer in Europe – Britain and Germany in particular. I began homebrewing at the age of 19. My interest in the hobby gained as my graduate deadlines approached. I took on a part time job at a local supply store, and became obsessed with every piece of information I could get my hands on. Read more>>
