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Ventura real estate investor is thinking big in Texas market

By   /  Friday, January 21st, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Ventura real estate investor is thinking big in Texas market

Dick Fausset is partying in Texas like it’s 1999. The California real estate investor and his Ventura-based firm, Fausset Neely, recently sold a 104,500-square-foot shopping center in Amarillo, Texas, for $4.4 million — twice as much as they paid for the property in 1998. The sale follows a year of scooping up more than 300,000 Read More →

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Orfaleas to give $1M to Ventura College program

By   /  Monday, December 20th, 2010  /  Latest news, Nonprofits, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Orfaleas to give $1M to Ventura College program

The charitable foundations of Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea announced a $1 million donation on Dec. 20 to the Child Development Center at Ventura College, the biggest gift in the community college’s 85-year history. Early childhood education is one of the focal points of The Orfalea Foundations, which consists of two funds started by Orfalea and Read More →

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Ventura branch to give Crowell Weedon hat trick in region

By   /  Monday, December 13th, 2010  /  Personal Finance  /  Comments Off on Ventura branch to give Crowell Weedon hat trick in region

Financial services firm Crowell Weedon & Co. will open a Ventura branch less than a year after arriving in Santa Barbara.

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Raising the bar: ThinkThin goes from home kitchen to big chain stores

By   /  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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Cabrillo EDC chief to retire

By   /  Monday, December 6th, 2010  /  Latest news, Nonprofits  /  Comments Off on Cabrillo EDC chief to retire

Rodney Fernandez will retire at the end of the year after nearly 30 years as executive director of Cabrillo Economic Development Corp.

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When vision isn’t enough: Former Patagonia CEO leads MBA program

By   /  Monday, December 6th, 2010  /  Features, Green Coast  /  Comments Off on When vision isn’t enough: Former Patagonia CEO leads MBA program

Former Patagonia CEO Michael Crooke is overseeing a new certificate at Pepperdine University’s MBA program in Malibu focusing on socially responsible business practices

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Main Street, online: Coupeez brings e-coupons to small businesses

By   /  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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