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Tracking trucks: ClearPathGPS offers fleet monitoring from the cloud

By   /  Friday, July 18th, 2014  /  Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Tracking trucks: ClearPathGPS offers fleet monitoring from the cloud

Two Santa Barbara software veterans have started ClearPathGPS to make that technology affordable and easy to use for fleets as small as five vehicles.

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A labor of leather: Craftsman adds artisan touch to family trade

By   /  Friday, July 11th, 2014  /  Small Business, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on A labor of leather: Craftsman adds artisan touch to family trade

With the warm, heavy smell of leather in the air, Steven Soria sits in his single-room shop in downtown Santa Barbara amid work tables crowded with metal machinery and tools.

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Playing your cards right: How to pick a payment processing service

By   /  Friday, July 11th, 2014  /  Small Business, Technology, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Playing your cards right: How to pick a payment processing service

The Business Times spoke with several retailers and merchant-processing services to find out what sorts of factors small-business owners should weigh when deciding on a point-of-sales system.

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American Dream, millennial edition: Young restaurateurs in Isla Vista

By   /  Friday, July 4th, 2014  /  Restaurants, Small Business, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on American Dream, millennial edition: Young restaurateurs in Isla Vista

Daniel Dunietz and Sean Evans, both in their 20s, enjoy a friendly rivalry as neighboring small-business owners in the student-dominated community of Isla Vista, next to UC Santa Barbara.

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Apeel blooms: Startup gets $1.3M to explore flower, produce coatings

By   /  Friday, July 4th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Apeel blooms: Startup gets $1.3M to explore flower, produce coatings

Apeel Sciences has raised $1.3 million and is working on a new product for flower growers to complement its existing efforts to prevent fruit and produce losses to pests and spoilage.

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Tech-savvy Ventura County grower re-engineers approach to raspberries

By   /  Friday, July 4th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Small Business, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County  /  1 Comment

Jurgen Gramckow is one of a few Ventura County raspberry growers who are making the crop one of the county’s highest-grossing agricultural products.

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Rising tide of exports: Region to boost business with Latin America

By   /  Friday, June 27th, 2014  /  East Ventura County, Small Business, South Coast, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Rising tide of exports: Region to boost business with Latin America

Foreign demand for American-made goods is fueling a rise in exports from the Tri-Counties to Latin America.

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