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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 →

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A new brew: Santa Barbara entrepreneurs invent frozen coffee product

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High-tech chalk: Startup offers digital alternative to slate signs

By   /  Friday, July 13th, 2012  /  Features, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on High-tech chalk: Startup offers digital alternative to slate signs

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How Make It Work fell off the fast track

By   /  Monday, July 9th, 2012  /  Small Business, Technology, Top Stories  /  6 Comments

With a fleet of red Mini Coopers, Eric Greenspan built Make It Work into a tech support empire that stretched from Goleta to the Mexican border along the California coast. Starting with Santa Barbara in 2001, the company’s technicians fanned out across the Southland and rolled all the way to San Diego, the Mini Coopers Read More →

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Keeping her cool: Chef churns out ice cream, second chances

By   /  Monday, July 9th, 2012  /  Features, Restaurants, Small Business  /  Comments Off on Keeping her cool: Chef churns out ice cream, second chances

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Ventura biodiesel firm gets $1.8M state grant

By   /  Monday, July 2nd, 2012  /  Green Coast, Latest news, Small Business  /  1 Comment

A Ventura-based biodiesel company received a $1.8 million grant from the state government on July 2. The California Energy Commission awarded the funds to Biodiesel Industries of Ventura, Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, said in a press release. The project will tap solar power and the byproducts of biodiesel production to provide power for a Read More →