Rosa Martin, the owner of Las Marianas Food Truck, started out as a brick and mortar restaurant, but as rent prices increased, she turned to Main Street Launch for additional capital to open a food truck instead. This became one of Oakland’s first Guatemalan food trucks, and Rosa serves delicious Guatemalan and Mexican favorites throughout…
Bootstrap Kombucha, located at 4085 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 105B in San Diego, is a company that brews real kombucha. They use ancient recipes, good quality water, and organic ingredients, believing that kombucha is best when served fresh, local, and on tap. The result is an honest and authentic product that’s tasty, refreshing, and good…
Motus Rehab Clinic is a multidisciplinary rehab practice, located in the SOMA district of San Francisco. They offer services from Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, and Massage therapists, for everyone from professional athletes to the desk bound employees. Their unique customized set of services helps each of their patients meet their goals and recover faster from their…
McMullen, owned by Sherri McMullen and supported by her three employees, is a boutique that offers designer and high end clothing to women in the Oakland area. The focus of McMullen is to help women feel and look their best offering a range of designers, mostly emerging female designers from around the world. In…
Katie Taylor, Main Street’s Vice President – Marketing & Executive Projects, interviews Lee Lambert. Lee has over 30 years of experience in management consulting, financial services, corporate and business development and startup companies. He has served on the Board of Directors for several private and one publicly traded company. Click here to read more about…
Walter E. Allen, a Navy veteran, started Acumen Building Enterprise in 1994 to help pay for graduate school. That small one-person consulting firm became a corporation in 2002. Acumen now has 40 employees and works with major transit agencies across the country to provide transit and transportation infrastructure development coupled with strategic technology solutions designed…
Luxurious Nail Boutique prides itself on being culturally diverse, clinically clean, and client-centric. Their staff of professional technicians are friendly and provide top-of-the-line work. The business opened in January 2017, and now has three employees. Richard offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: “When you ask for money, make sure you can answer any question about…
In Oakland and Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue is an artery of small business for almost the entire length of the street. Yet, there are still patches in the middle where entrepreneurs see opportunities to enter an untapped market. In these middle areas many entrepreneurs offer a niche variation of a product that reflects creativity and combines…
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The Waffle Experience offers a large menu for breakfast and lunch, all centered around waffles. If you’ve never tried a burger on a waffle or a salad with a waffle base, these guys have you covered. It is hard to tell what is more unique about The Waffle Experience restaurant: their breakfast and lunch creations…
