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SLO startup season heats up: Tech entrepreneurs gear up to pitch investors

By   /  Friday, September 7th, 2012  /  Features, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on SLO startup season heats up: Tech entrepreneurs gear up to pitch investors

It’s tech pitch season in San Luis Obispo, with Cal Poly’s HotHouse turning out a crop of startups angling for funding and Softec and other groups gearing up for a fall symposium that promises to draw hundreds of listeners and, hopefully, a few investors. The Cal Poly effort has kept students focused on business ideas Read More →

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Will turn tricks for profits Magic Geek conjures a business out of a hobby

By   /  Friday, August 31st, 2012  /  Features, Small Business  /  Comments Off on Will turn tricks for profits Magic Geek conjures a business out of a hobby

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Riding high: Suspension technology drives AccuAir growth

By   /  Friday, August 24th, 2012  /  Central Coast, Features, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on Riding high: Suspension technology drives AccuAir growth

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Hold the politics: Chick-fil-A franchisees caught in flap over exec’s comments

By   /  Friday, August 17th, 2012  /  Features, Real Estate, Small Business  /  Comments Off on Hold the politics: Chick-fil-A franchisees caught in flap over exec’s comments

  Craig Goettsche just wants to serve Southern-style chicken sandwiches and waffle fries to his customers. Keep the pickles — hold the politics. But like other Chick-fil-A franchisees across the country, Goettsche has found his business caught in the midst of the kerfuffle surrounding anti gay-marriage statements made by the company’s president, Dan Cathy. The Read More →

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Something new under the sun: Mobile Solar powers job sites

By   /  Friday, August 10th, 2012  /  Central Coast, Features, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on Something new under the sun: Mobile Solar powers job sites

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Spirit of Small Business 2012 winners announced

By   /  Friday, July 27th, 2012  /  Features, Small Business  /  Comments Off on Spirit of Small Business 2012 winners announced

The 10th edition of Spirit of Small Business, the Pacific Coast Business Times’ annual celebration of small business and entrepreneurship in the Tri-Counties, published July 27. This 40-page special section features nine small businesses from Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. To read profiles of the winners, pick up a print copy of Read More →

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Make It Work ran out of gas on Mini leases

By   /  Friday, July 27th, 2012  /  Small Business, Technology, Top Stories  /  1 Comment

Make It Work’s signature red Mini Coopers may have been the key to the company’s undoing when the vehicle’s owners sued for $26,546 in back lease payments on them. The Santa Barbara-based tech support firm closed its doors on June 25, putting two dozen technicians out of work and leaving behind a trail of angry Read More →