Top executives followed their own paths
Follow your own instincts. Don’t be afraid to go against the conventional wisdom. Chaos creates opportunities. Those were the lessons that two of the Tri-Counties’ top business leaders hammered home at the annual South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner on June 4. The annual dinner has become an attraction for business leaders from across Read More →
Trouble in Thousand Oaks – Rancho Serrano developers file Chapter 11
The developers of 22 upscale townhomes near the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza face civil claims that they failed to repay a $9.1 million construction loan and have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The lawsuit and bankruptcy are the latest in a string of woes for residential real estate developers in the Tri-Counties who are Read More →
Your guide to financial sanity – Green Sherpa takes money management software online
As a financial advisor for nearly 15 years, Erin Lozano became good at seeing patterns in the numbers she crunched. Overspending on clothes … again? Check for overspending in other areas. Spending more on luxury items than on educational entertainment for the kids? Budgets and values may need realignment. These “life layer” patterns of personal Read More →
Star woos Hispanic readers with Siglo21
The Ventura County Star has teamed up with Oxnard-based Spanish-language radio network Lazer Broadcasting to offer a free weekly newspaper aimed at Ventura County’s Latino community. The two are distributing 20,000 copies of a relaunched Siglo21 to 275 locations, mostly in West Ventura County. The newspaper hit stands about eight weeks ago. George Cogswell, the Read More →
Park cuts protested – Businesses say closures would hurt tourism, jobs
Tourism officials, superintendents and small business owners in the Tri-Counties agree on one thing — shutting state parks, including 21 in the Tri-Counties, is the wrong way to cut the budget deficit. They say closing the parks, a part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s austerity program, will result in reduced sales tax revenue, lost jobs and Read More →
Ring around the revenue – Company raises $3.5M for phone venture
Just a year and a half after its founding, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.5 million in venture capital, signed up the biggest customer in its target market and is hiring fast. RingRevenue has developed a technology to let advertisers track phone calls the same way they currently track clicks. At the core of the Read More →
Software helps firms track online activity
For small businesses, dropping a sales lead every now and then used to be part of life – too many e-mails and inquiries, too little time. But these days, every lead counts, and Santa Barbara-based Moonray is targeting small businesses with new marketing software designed to keep potential customers from slipping away. The Web-based system Read More →
