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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, December 17th, 2010 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on A win for the little guys
Santa Barbara’s independent bookstores are claiming victory in the latest battle against big-box chains
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, December 13th, 2010 / Features, Small Business, Women Inc. / Comments Off on Raising the bar: ThinkThin goes from home kitchen to big chain stores
Ventura-based energy bar company ThinkThin went from a home startup to a $30 million-a-year business
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 29th, 2010 / Small Business / Comments Off on A tasty comeback: Habit veteran returns with Hook Burger Bistro
Habit Burger veteran Brent Reichard recently came out of semi-retirement to launch a new, more upscale burger restaurant, which recently opened its first store in Oxnard.
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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, November 22nd, 2010 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Main Street, online: Coupeez brings e-coupons to small businesses
Matthew Graczyk wants to bring online coupons to mom-and-pop shops across the nation, and he’s starting with downtown Ventura. Graczyk is the founder of Coupeez, an online service that lets companies post coupons and discounts. The site launched in October. So far, it has signed up about 100 businesses, many within walking distance of Coupeez’s Read More →
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By Staff Report / Monday, November 15th, 2010 / Latest news, Small Business / Comments Off on Santa Barbara restaurant owner sells Seagrass
Prolific Santa Barbara restaurateur Mitchell Sjerven announced Nov. 15 that he has sold Seagrass Restaurant to a family that recently relocated to Santa Barbara. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The buyer is the Perez family: chef Robert Perez, his wife, Marianna Perez, and their sons Ruben and Richard. They moved recently from Nevada Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, November 15th, 2010 / Features, Small Business, Top Stories / Comments Off on Ojai Oil Co. goes from black gold to organic olives
Ojai Oil Co.’s 110-year history is as rich as the black gold bubbling up into the Ojai Valley, but the fourth generation of the company is moving away from crude oil to find new fortunes in olive oil. Ojai Oil, headquartered in Camarillo, was started in 1900 by the late Charles Off and 25 original Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, November 15th, 2010 / Small Business, Top Stories / Comments Off on Business pressure could kill 1099 rule
Among the many political casualties of mid-term elections this year may be an obscure tax-reporting rule that it seems no one — even people within the IRS itself — will miss. The 1099 rule, as it has come to be known, was a little-noticed part of the health-care legislation passed earlier this year. It requires Read More →
