Sonos’ revenue revelation generates buzz among IPO speculators
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Sonos’ revenue revelation generates buzz among IPO speculators
It takes a ton of revenue — or some very foolishly spent capital — to support a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, including a coveted spot in the Super Bowl commercials.
Santa Paula entrepreneur turns attention to Chinese attack victims
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 7th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Santa Paula entrepreneur turns attention to Chinese attack victims

“None of the victims did anything wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is about people helping people. We all live here,” Santa Paula resident William Irion, who frequently travels to China, told me.

German entrepreneur tunes into hearing loops with Otojoy
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 7th, 2014 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on German entrepreneur tunes into hearing loops with Otojoy
A Santa Barbara entrepreneur is hoping to make life in public places a little easier for people with hearing loss. Otojoy installs hearing loops, which take audio signals from sound systems and then transmit them electromagnetically to be picked up by a special feature found in most hearing aids.

Wells Fargo wealth managers move into new LEED offices
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, February 21st, 2014 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Wells Fargo wealth managers move into new LEED offices
The Private Bank at Wells Fargo has moved into 10,000 square feet of shiny new digs at 118 Carrillo St. in Santa Barbara.
50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, February 21st, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on 50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future

For five decades, entertainer and longtime South Coast resident Peter Noone has kept alive the legacy of the band now known as Herman and the Hermits, providing the world with some of the most enduring music of the British Invasion. During the past few weeks, Noone offered to spend a bit of airplane time answering a few questions from the Business Times about his life and the music business.

Precedent-setting attorneys launch surrogacy agency in Santa Barbara
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 14th, 2014 / Columns, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on Precedent-setting attorneys launch surrogacy agency in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara attorneys Robert Walmsley and Marlea Jarrette have opened an agency called Surrogacy International to build on their decades of experience practicing — and sometimes helping establish — the law that applies when a woman agrees to carry a child for another couple.
Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, February 14th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star

Building solar panels for the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s, John W. “Bill” Yerkes was struck by an idea that would change the way the world thinks about electricity.