North Bay Business Journal

  • Calling all green technology startups

    August 8th, 2011

    SAN RAFAEL – A new seed and angel funding investment forum featuring green technology is planned for Marin this Fall, part of a statewide push to bring together early stage investors with early-stage technology companies.

  • Funding activity increases for startups

    July 11th, 2011

    Venture capital and angel investments are starting to pick up after a lull in the last few years, because of a strengthening economy and the ability to fund a company with a lot less capital than was needed historically.

  • Web design conference a first for North Bay

    March 21st, 2011

    ROHNERT PARK — Michael Slater, a veteran of the Internet and Internet conferences, believes the North Bay is ready for its own web design conclave.

  • Looking for the next Google, SSU, cluster set business plan contest

    February 28th, 2011

    ROHNERT PARK – Polish up those bright ideas, budding entrepreneurs. The first business plan pageant is under way at the North Bay iHub and the winner could be the next Nick Sturiale.

  • Personal News Network startup closes

    January 19th, 2011

    ROHNERT PARK — PNN (Personal News Network), the first company to join the Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster, closed its doors on Jan. 1, according to founder Lauren Elliott.

  • After Hours: Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster anniversary / Casa Allegra Bocce Tournament

    November 22nd, 2010

    September 9, 2010: Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster celebrated its third anniversary. / October 2, 2010: The 10th annual Casa Allegra Bocce Tournament was held at Albert Park in San Rafael. More than $15,000 was raised to purchase special equipment and necessities for people with developmental disabilities in Marin.

  • Business cluster sets investor summit

    November 8th, 2010

    ROHNERT PARK – High-end cabernet and cars will be sideshows at the second North Bay Investor Summit, an event its sponsors hope will attract capital to aspiring startups in the area.

  • Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster, Wavepoint in partnership

    July 15th, 2010

    ROHNERT PARK – The Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster has formed a strategic relationship with Wavepoint Ventures, it announced today. The venture will identify and support innovative startups throughout the North Bay region, according to SMBC Executive Director Michael Newell. Wavepoint, a venture capital firm with offices in El Dorado Hills and Menlo Park, manages seed-stage [...]

  • Flexible LED jumbo display goes on tour with new owner

    April 19th, 2010

    ROHNERT PARK — Just two years after launching Pix2o — formerly Displ’aire — Leo Sterns and Lynton Auld have built and sold their first mobile, flexible, LED jumbo screens.

  • SSU conference ‘call to action’ on economy gets response

    March 8th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – “This is a call to action,” said Dr. William Silver, dean of the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University when he opened its annual economic outlook conference Feb. 25.

  • Business Cluster named one of six iHub job centers

    February 22nd, 2010

    ROHNERT PARK – The Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster has a new tag to add to incubator, business education provider and green tech business center.

  • Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster gets $20,000 grant

    November 24th, 2009

    ROHNERT PARK — The Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster has received a $20,000 gift from The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation.

  • Brad Bollinger: Praise, questions for Sonoma Mountain Village agreement

    October 22nd, 2009

    Depending on your point of view, the sweeping and detailed development agreement reached between Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park and a coalition of local labor, housing and environmental groups is either legalized extortion or visionary.

  • Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster

    September 22nd, 2009

    Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster is the North Bay’s first incubator, a nonprofit organization with a mission of creating high-value jobs and accelerating the success of technology start-ups. (Click on the image to open as a PDF file in a new window. Right-click on the image to download as a PDF file.)

  • China vs. U.S.: They are winning economic race, says high-tech veteran

    August 24th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – After a recent visit to his startup’s new manufacturing operation in a China, veteran high-tech executive Lindsay Austin has a new sense of urgency about the enormous competitive challenge the U.S., California and the North Bay face.

  • Codding acquires 33% of filtration startup AspenAir

    August 6th, 2009

    ROHNERT PARK – Codding Enterprises has acquired a 33 percent interest in AspenAir and plans to use its air-filtration systems in all Codding green building construction projects.

  • Startups pitch at first North Bay Investors Summit

    June 15th, 2009

    Expectations ran high among a group of 10 early-stage companies as they presented their business ideas and funding needs at the first North Bay Investors Summit at the Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center on June 10. The summit, organized by the Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster in partnership with the Keiretsu Forum and the North Bay Angels, attracted 80 members of the Bay Area angel capital community.

  • Leaders say encouraging business development key to retaining local talent

    May 25th, 2009

    With the loss of 600 high-wage positions just between Agilent Technologies and Medtronic Cardio-Vascular in Sonoma County alone, North Bay business, government and education leaders will need to work together to create alternatives for the region’s talent.
    Local economic experts said unlike specific industries that can rise and fall, small business development might be the answer to attracting new talent in the future and realigning local resources in difficult times.

  • Business dean tells why ‘this community inspires me’

    February 23rd, 2009

    Editor’s note: Following are the opening remarks delivered to the Feb. 6 Sonoma State University Economic Outlook conference by William Silver, the dean of the SSU School of Business and Economics.

  • Growth when businesses incubate

    February 16th, 2009

    ROHNERT PARK – Entrepreneurship is thriving in the North Bay if the Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster is any indication.

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