AppFolio gains $8M more in venture capital
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on AppFolio gains $8M more in venture capital
Santa Barbara-based software firm AppFolio has gained another $8 million in venture capital. The investment came from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, one of the company’s existing investors. It brings the total venture capital raised by the Web-based software company since last year to $30 million, more than any other investments disclosed by tri-county Read More →
Read More →FDIC deadline looms for Affinity Bank
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on FDIC deadline looms for Affinity Bank
Mark your calendars, bank watchers. Aug. 20 could be a big day for Ventura-based commercial real estate lender Affinity Bank. That’s the day the bank will have to show state and federal regulators that it’s either raised a lot of money, shed a lot of troubled loans or come up with some other way to Read More →
Read More →Words from the Oracle
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Words from the Oracle
Oracle chairman and Santa Barbara resident Jeff Henley gave a motivational talk to teens at the start of a business leadership program sponsored by the Small Business Development Center. Henley spoke at the Lompoc Boys and Girls Club Aug. 10 to about a dozen youth members and a handful of adults as SBDC consultant for Read More →
Read More →Big cuts for small business
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Big cuts for small business
Just when it seemed that the credit crunch couldn’t squeeze any harder, thousands of small businesses in California found that it could. Nationwide, credit cards rates were up, bank loans were trickling out and federal aid was still slow in taking effect. And then, with a few sentences of legislation tacked on to the state Read More →
Read More →Comics
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 10th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Comics
Like the characters they create, many comic book artists and writers in the Tri-Counties find themselves moonlighting after their 9-to-5 jobs. The onset of the recession — combined with a continued decline in self-publishing revenues and fewer available distribution channels — has made it harder for independent writers and artists to earn a living from Read More →
Read More →Fairing well
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 3rd, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Fairing well
There is no recession in Paso Robles this week. Or next week, for that matter. As it turns out, a little summer fun is just what the city needed. California Mid-State Fair ticket sales exploded this year, thanks to special promotions, new outreach efforts and the popularity of the staycation. Now Santa Barbara’s Fiesta and Read More →
Read More →Camarillo plays an ACE
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, July 27th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Camarillo plays an ACE
After six years of collaboration between education officials and trade professionals, Camarillo will finally have a new charter high school aimed at boosting the Tri-Counties’ skilled building labor force. The Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School, or ACE, as the new school would be called, will be a part of the Oxnard Union High School Read More →
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