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Tri-counties rank high on women in business leadership

By   /  Friday, December 6th, 2013  /  Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies, Women Inc.  /  Comments Off on Tri-counties rank high on women in business leadership

Westlake Village-based LTC Properties, Goleta-based Deckers Outdoor Corp. and Move Inc., whose headquarters are in the Bay Area but has most of its employees in Westlake Village, were on a yearly ranking produced by UC Davis. Each year, the school surveys publicly traded companies in the state to find which have the most women among their boards of directors and highest paid executives.

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$86.2M Inogen IPO puts Goleta startups in play

By   /  Friday, December 6th, 2013  /  Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on $86.2M Inogen IPO puts Goleta startups in play

Goleta-based Inogen, a maker of portable oxygen concentrators founded by UC Santa Barbara students, has filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $86.2 million. While many successful companies have been spun out of UCSB by professors and doctoral students, Inogen would likely be the first company founded by an undergraduate team to go public. Inogen won the program’s very first business plan competition in 2001.

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Entrepreneurship Q&A: Growing your small business in the new economy

By   /  Friday, November 29th, 2013  /  Personal Finance, Small Business, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Entrepreneurship Q&A: Growing your small business in the new economy

As part of an occasional series checking in with small-business experts in the region, the Business Times asked Ray Bowman, the director of the Small Business Development Center at the Economic Development Collaborative — Ventura County, to take part in a written Q&A about entrepreneurial finance.

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Apollo cashes in on CKE with $1.6B sale

By   /  Friday, November 22nd, 2013  /  Banking & Finance, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Apollo cashes in on CKE with $1.6B sale

CKE will join Roark affiliated companies, which include Arby’s, Cinnabon, Carvel, Wingstop, Corner Bakery and a number of others. “The cultural match is very positive, and we look forward to taking full advantage of their experience and expertise in the restaurant segment,” CKE chief executive Andy Puzder told the Business Times.

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CKE Restaurants sold to Atlanta private equity firm

By   /  Wednesday, November 20th, 2013  /  Banking & Finance, Restaurants, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on CKE Restaurants sold to Atlanta private equity firm

CKE Restaurants, the Carpinteria-based parent of Carls Jr. and Hardees, has been sold to an Atlanta private equity firm specializing in restaurant chains.

The price was not disclosed and the sale to an affiliate of Roark Capital Group comes five months after Apollo Global Management hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale or spinoff of the company it purchased in 2010.

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Taylor Frigon invests in Schmidt-backed cloud tech firm

By   /  Friday, November 15th, 2013  /  Banking & Finance, Personal Finance, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Taylor Frigon invests in Schmidt-backed cloud tech firm

Alongside its everyday wealth and investment management business, San Luis Obispo-based Taylor Frigon Capital Management has been quietly making venture capital investments over the past five years that are gaining attention from Silicon Valley heavyweights.

Taylor Frigon’s venture investment arm, Taylor Frigon Capital Partners, was an early investor in a company called Otoy in Los Angeles. The company has recently inked deals with a spate of big players — Firefox parent Mozilla, Amazon’s cloud services branch and Autodesk, the gold-standard for 3-D rendering software — to crack a previously unachievable goal.

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Clean Diesel’s Pirelli deal scuttled

By   /  Wednesday, November 13th, 2013  /  Banking & Finance, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Clean Diesel’s Pirelli deal scuttled

Clean Diesel said Nov. 12 that it and the Italian auto parts firm had decided to cancel a project launched earlier this year that brought Clean Diesel’s catalytic converter coatings to Europe.

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