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Start Up Client Business Directory
Start Up is thrilled to launch an
updated business directory! This pilot, which
began in summer 2007, features clients who completed
business training between 2004 and 2006 and whose
businesses are operating and growing with this
expanded online presence. We thank our volunteers,
who donated their time and energy to visit clients
at their businesses. They were instrumental in
helping clients to create these websites and in
teaching the business owners how to manage and
update their new sites.
Start Up is proud to share with you that Start Up
client-affiliated businesses represent 13% of all
currently licensed businesses in the City of East
Palo Alto! Since 1994, we have helped create and
strengthen over 300 businesses, and we invite you to
show your support by visiting these websites and
learning about the clients whose lives our program
is helping to transform.
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Home/Commercial Cleaning |
Gardening/Lawn
Maintenance |
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Entrepreneur:
Vicky Estrada
Business:
Vision Cleaning Services |
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Entrepreneur:
Armando Avila
Business:
Avila's Gardening
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I came to the United
States in March 1990 with the idea of building a
life
that in my country, without the proper
social status and education, is very difficult...
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I immigrated from Senguio, Michoacan, a small
agricultural town in Mexico, in 1998. When I started
working on small gardening projects in the Bay Area,
I was naturally drawn to this line of work...
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| Retail - Tongan Goods &
Services |
Beauty Salon |
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Entrepreneur:
Dee Uhila
Business:
Pacific Tonga Ma'a Tonga |
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Entrepreneur:
Katherine Bliss-Jones
Business:
Address Beauty
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When Dee Uhila started Pacific Tonga-Ma'a-Tonga USA,
she had a clear mission: To provide the growing
Tongan community in the Peninsula with access to the
treasures of their homeland...
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It all started with a
healer in London, some six years ago. I was visiting
my eighty-year-old friend, a close friend of my
mother's... |
| Retail - Party Rentals |
Beauty/Hair Salon |
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Entrepreneur:
Feliciano Zavala
Business:
Peninsula Party
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Entrepreneur:
Rosaura Rendón
Business:
Rosy's Salon
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Perhaps the first
indication of Chano Zavala's potential for
entrepreneurial success was a rapid promotion from
truck driver to general manager...
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I'm the proud owner of
Rosy's Salon in East Palo Alto. I have been in the
beauty business for more than 20 years. I remember,
as a little girl...
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| Retail - Bags &
Accessories |
Limousine/Transportation |
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Entrepreneur:
Lorie Robinson
Business:
Baby Love Accessories
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Entrepreneur:
Halim Mustafa
Business:
City Matrix Limousine
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A seamstress her whole
life, Lorie Robinson knows the styles that work and
how to complete your look. She is always on the hunt
for the fashions...
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Since being an athlete in high school, I have always
had the dream to become a businessman. All of my
volunteer efforts in community and youth development
here in the community...
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| Retail - Clothing |
Restaurants |
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Entrepreneur:
Tometrius Paxton
Business:
Stripped Searched Clothing |
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Entrepreneur:
Emerita Macias
Business:
Rincon Sabroso Restaurant |
Stripped Searched Clothing started with Tometrius
Paxton's passion for knowledge. Aware of the fact
that today's overflow of information makes it
difficult for people to distill the facts...
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Ever since Emerita Macias was a little girl, she
loved business. Seeing how neighbors and friends in
her hometown of Nochistlan Zac made money selling
things like tostadas...
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| Video/Film Editing |
Floral Arrangements |
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Entrepreneur:
Jekyns Pelaez
Business:
JDSF Productions LLC
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Entrepreneur:
Ines Alvizar
Business:
Decoraciones Alvizar
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I moved to the United States 14 years ago and have
been involved with the entertainment business all my
life, performing arts mostly...
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I began Decoraciones
Alvizar two years ago when I decided to formalize
the work I was doing from home. I came to the United
States five years ago. I spent the first three
years...
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| Graphic
Design/Laser Etching |
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Entrepreneur:
Ronnie Matthews
Business:
Laser Art Image & Design |
More to come! |
My name is Ronnie Matthews; I was born in San Mateo
raised in East Palo Alto and attended high school at
Carlmont in Belmont. I went on to pursue a job in
the union construction field...
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We invite and greatly
appreciate any and all feedback! Please e-mail us at
info (at) startupepa (dot) org with comments,
suggestions, or questions. |
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