Hacker Lab, located on the border of Curtis Park and Oak Park, is a tech work space founded in March. It facilitates bootstrapped start-ups and tech enthusiasts. Bootstrapping is when start-up businesses fund their own endeavors instead of seeking investment money. (See Wiki.) Tech enthusiasts can be anyone interested in technologies such as programming, web design, mobile and web development, hardware technology and software. Hacker Lab’s focus is to build a community promoting technology, education, job creation and entrepreneurship in the Sacramento region. Inside the facility, aside from other techies, you will find a hardware lab for building out prototypes, gadgets and gizmos. The

Mahil Keval is an entrepreneur. He left his engineering career to pursue his dream, the American dream of owning his own business. Sounds familiar right? Well, Keval’s story is a bit different to me. He was not struggling in a 9-to-5 and barely making ends meet. He was not down on his luck living on his last dime, needing to make “it” happen, which is the stereotypical story of the entrepreneur. Keval is a UC Berkeley graduate (BS ’09) with a degree in mechanical engineering. He had an awesome job working for McCarthy Building Companies as a project engineer building a 200,000-square-foot, $200 million biomedical research facility on the Berkeley campus. Quite impressive, to say the leas

  Chrometa is a Sacramento startup, and its founders’ story is one of the tenacity it takes to make a startup successful. With all the stories such as Facebook and Instragram, one may think that building the next big thing is not that hard, and that you will be instantly rich with a movie deal in the near future. Chrometa is automatic timekeeping software that quietly runs in the background of your PC, monitoring your actions such as working on software, writing docs, checking email and doing any other tasks related to the work flow. It tracks time down to the second and can automatically categorize time to the appropriate clients and projects based on keywords. Chrometa is an awesome