Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Friday, August 21st, 2009
Top Stories As California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, mulls bringing a master’s of business administration program to Santa Barbara, business schools around the Tri-Counties say demand for the degree is booming because of a down economy and that their satellite campuses are going strong. Cal Poly said Aug. 12 that it plans to conduct a Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Top Stories Santa Barbara-based software firm AppFolio has gained another $8 million in venture capital. The investment came from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, one of the company’s existing investors. It brings the total venture capital raised by the Web-based software company since last year to $30 million, more than any other investments disclosed by tri-county Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, August 17th, 2009
Top Stories Oracle chairman and Santa Barbara resident Jeff Henley gave a motivational talk to teens at the start of a business leadership program sponsored by the Small Business Development Center. Henley spoke at the Lompoc Boys and Girls Club Aug. 10 to about a dozen youth members and a handful of adults as SBDC consultant for Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, August 17th, 2009
Top Stories Just when it seemed that the credit crunch couldn’t squeeze any harder, thousands of small businesses in California found that it could. Nationwide, credit cards rates were up, bank loans were trickling out and federal aid was still slow in taking effect. And then, with a few sentences of legislation tacked on to the state Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, August 17th, 2009
Columns Do individuals really make a difference?Or is our fate—in business and in life — determined by trends that are largely out of our control? This is a debate that goes on in my head constantly as I try to understand how the Great Recession is playing out in our small corner of the global economy. Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, August 17th, 2009
Columns In one of the largest retail deals in California this year, an investment group led by J.S. Rosenfield & Company has purchased the 30-year ground lease from Pacific Capital Bancorp on the Coast Village Shopping Center in Montecito. The Santa Monica-based real estate company plans to convert the 45-year-old center into a country mart, said Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, August 17th, 2009
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Thomas Aquinas College may have the key to creating better employees for companies everywhere. The Santa Paula school’s uncommon curriculum and learning structure set it apart from other liberal arts colleges. But most important to employers, graduates are trained in sparking discussions and handling ethical issues. Thomas Aquinas bases its entire curriculum on the Read More →
