DMGI Hopes to Ride the Digital Music Wave into the Black
Amazon, Netflix, eBay … the Digital Music Group? Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of that last one; neither have most people. Butafter barely two years in business, the Sacramento-based digital music distributor definitely has both its investors and the fi nancial markets buzzing [click on title to continue reading...]
The Rags-to-Riches Rise of Soccer Fanatic, Franchisee and Mega-Developer Abe Alizadeh
Imagine yourself at the age of 16 being dropped into the middle of a strange land where you don’t speak the language, have precious little money, no friends or relatives, and only the vaguest of ideas of where to go and what to do with [click on title to continue reading...]
How CoreLogic Became One of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
Mortgage lenders are always searching for a more efficient and profitable way to get from Point A to Point B. To accomplish that goal, about a quarter of the entire loan industry is beating a path to the door of Sacramento-based CoreLogic, whose high-tech loan-valuation [click on title to continue reading...]
How Good Businesses Go Bad…and Then Right Themselves
Anyone who has ever built a successful business from scratch knows they got there through a combination of business savvy, hard work and plain old guts. But what happens when that flourishing company begins to slide, losing revenues and inching toward the brink of insolvency? About half of [click on title to continue reading...]
It isn’t easy to pin down Dr. Balazs “Ernie” Bodai, Director of Breast Surgical Services for Sacramento Kaiser Permanente. Bodai, renowned for the overwhelming success of his brainchild postage stamp to benefit breast cancer research, keeps a 24/7/365 schedule that would grind most people into the ground. But Bodai isn’t most people, and while some [click on title to continue reading...]