Northern California Couple Makes their Business a Family Affair

Northern California Couple Makes their Business a Family Affair

Since 1999, husband-and-wife team Mike and Heather Johnson have been growing their family and their business on the immediate outskirts of the technology epicenter known as Silicon Valley. Their company, Dataflow Networks, is located in the Northern California town of Livermore, Calif.

Heather was pregnant with the couple’s eldest son, Jordan, now 12, when Mike started working out of their garage, managing technology for small businesses in the area. During the day he worked full-time in Silicon Valley’s then-thriving dot.com world. By 2006, he was ready to quit his day job to focus full-time on Dataflow Networks. The Johnsons rapidly started putting together their now six-person team, which includes Heather, who has a background in human resources, managing the business operations while Mike handles sales and technology.
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HEROware Customer Puts the Focus on Clients

HEROware Customer Puts the Focus on Clients

The reason Lee Morgan and his business partner, Dan Gross, founded their Thousand Oaks, Calif. Company, ServiCorps Systems, Inc., in 2003 is a common one for many IT entrepreneurs: they were tired of watching internal politics tear apart good companies, leaving them jobless in the process.

“We started with a simple philosophy that matches our business name,” says Morgan. “We wanted to be the core of technology service for our clients.”

With this in mind, Morgan and Gross quickly set their sights on becoming a business known for their excellent customer service and responsiveness. He wanted his clients to see ServiCorps as a trusted advisor that puts a priority on the needs of its clients, not its own needs.
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HEROware Customer Brings the Spirit of the Islands to His Clients

June 1, 2013

For the past six years, George Cabanting has been living the dream, working throughout the beautiful island of Maui and helping his small business clients keep their operations running smoothly.

George’s current life and career on the island was just a fantasy when he started working in the “small business” division of a mid-sized company back in 2000. He was living and working in Nevada when the opportunity to open a new branch of the company in Maui came along. He eventually became independent of the company, started Oxford Computer Services, LLC as a single business proprietor and the rest, as they say, is island history.

Living in a tropical paradise, however, is not without its challenges. The remoteness that makes the island so very dreamy can also make technology so very difficult.
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