A greener cleaner: eLabor.com founder now heads Camarillo startup
UncategorizedMichael Edell has gone from software to soap. He is hoping the touch that helped him expand and sell his firms to the likes of Microsoft and ADP will make GrabGreen, a Camarillo-based line of eco-friendly cleaning products, into a household name. Founded by Patricia Spencer, a mother who was concerned about the chemicals in Read More →
Apartments a bright spot in South Coast real estate market
ColumnsThe South Coast apartment market has seen more than $77 million in property sales this year, according to commercial real estate brokers at Radius Group’s Santa Barbara County Real Estate and Economic Outlook on Sept. 16. The largest sale was the $37.4 million purchase of the Fontainebleu apartments in Isla Vista. Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Read More →
Power-One shows California lacks spark
ColumnsIt’s hard to find a better turnaround story than Power-One. The Camarillo-based company took a secondary product line from an Italian company it had purchased and bet the farm on a new line of business — producing devices called inverters that are crucial to regulating the power output of wind turbines and solar panel arrays. Read More →
40 Under 40: Class of 2010
UNKNOWN40 Under 40: The Class of 2010 Evan Asher (TechEase, Santa Barbara) Donna Beal (Donna Beal Consulting, Santa Maria) Joshua Best (Nordman Cormany, Oxnard) Ashley Bautista (Paladin Principle, Ventura) Marni Brook (Montecito Bank & Trust, Ventutra) Shawn Carson (TWIW Insurance Services, Ventura) Christos Celmayster (Hayes Commercial Group, Santa Barbara) Nikki Chairez (Oxnard Chamber of Commerce, Read More →
High-wireless acts: Row 44, Sonos capitalize on move toward WiFi
UncategorizedThe world is going wireless, and two tri-county firms have raised $62 million as proof. Westlake Village-based Row 44 and Santa Barbara-based Sonos are building businesses around consumers’ burgeoning demand to stay connected to their digital lives wherever they are. Row 44 operates an in-flight wireless Internet service and is installing it on Southwest Airlines’ Read More →
Carpinteria
UncategorizedCarpinteria is home to some of the largest private and public companies on the South Coast, including Clipper Windpower, CKE Restaurants and Lynda.com. But the small seaside city has seen its commercial real estate market stagnate over the past year, jumping up to a 14.6 percent industrial vacancy rate. Online software training firm Lynda.com started Read More →
Solar firms go panel-to-panel in Oxnard
ColumnsA school district in West Ventura County is the last place on Earth where you’d expect to find ground zero in the battle for global supremacy in the solar energy business. But that’s precisely the scenario that’s unfolding in the wake of an Oxnard Union School District board vote earlier this month that gave Read More →
