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Give small businesses a few tools |
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Written by Henry Dubroff
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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.jpg) It’s bad enough that regulators have basically forced our community banks to redline small businesses and deprive them of capital at a time when it’s most needed.
Now comes word that staff have been let go at Small Business Development Centers, which provide technical assistance to operating ventures in Ventura and Santa Barbara centers, which were operating under the auspices of Ventura College.
The community colleges no longer will be the host agency for the effort, while Long Beach Community College, which operates SBDC’s across greater Los Angeles, prepares a request for proposals for a new host organization.
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During the past 15 years, a tool and hardware distributor in Camarillo called Central Purchasing exploded into one of the largest private companies in the Tri-Counties as it exploited new sales channels online, in broadcast media and at 300 retail stores..jpg)
In what may be the largest lease deal in the Tri-Counties to date this year, Dynacorn International leased 98,952 square feet of industrial space at 4030 Via Pescador in Camarillo. The seven-year lease is valued at more than $3.8 million, according to NAI Capital’s Ventura County office, which represented the lessee.
