Targus made the first laptop case 40-plus years ago. It survived by owning the boring, essential stuff everyone forgets to buy until they need it - and by turning old bottles into backpacks.
Daniel Rosenberg landed in Los Angeles from Chile in 1989 with entrepreneurial mileage and not much else. Three decades later his family runs a furniture-to-refrigerators retailer that quietly out-locals the national chains across Orange County.