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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

Titans of Tech Finalists: Know Your Titans

Santa Cruz Work’s 4th Titans of Tech event is just around the corner on January 8th in 2020. Learn more about the Titans as we celebrated people who have lifted us with their challenges, their successes, their character, and contributions to our community. Marc Randolph, Nina Simon, David Haussler, and more.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Making Gasoline Out of Thin Air

New Santa Cruz company Prometheus Fuels has a unique product for creating gasoline out of thin air. This could be the stop-gap solution we so desperately need.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

The Garage at productOps

Thank you to productOps for inviting us to check out The Garage, their new space to build innovative hardware and software. Learn about some of the projects and who they have been working with in the video…

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

Areias Systems Making Ideas Reality

Areias Systems is a local Scotts Valley based company providing full service design, prototyping, and manufacturing to turn your ideas into products. Joining us on December 4th’s event, CEO Clemm Noernberg will provide insight on the behind the scenes process of making ideas reality.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

Young Professionals Mixer In Photos

Thank you to everybody who came to the Young Professionals Mixer on November 20th. The event was cosponsored by Santa Cruz Works, MBEP, Think Local First, LINK, and YFIOB and was the first of its kind in the Santa Cruz area.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Women Who Cowork Crowdfunding Campaign

Women Who Cowork is a membership platform for femme-identified coworking space operators around the world. Our mission is to amplify the coworking movement by providing women with support, resources and mentorship.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Where There Be Dragons... in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz welcomes a new member to our community: Aaron Slosberg. Aaron is the Director of Student Programming at Where There Be Dragons (“WTBD”), a 28-year old company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Intentional Leaders Delivers Program for Tech

Janice Drescher of Intentional Leaders offers retreats to generate powerful insights for healthy work relationships, collaboration and creative problem-solving. And horses can teach us so much.

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Guest User Guest User

Community Focus: Anna Lee-Poli of Owl Eye Media

How Santa Cruz helped her start her company, and how SCW is helping her grow it. Anna Lee-Poli of Owl Eye Media, a full-service production company based in Santa Cruz, says one of her most rewarding projects almost didn’t happen. She and her team were filming at the Dream Inn…

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

30 Years of Cruzio Internet: Our Interview with Peggy Dolgenos

Thirty years ago, Cruzio Internet launched in Santa Cruz. The pioneering company, which is one of the largest independent internet service providers in California, has since helped countless businesses and people connect with others, both locally and globally. Recently, Cruzio made a significant investment in downtown Santa Cruz: an all-fiber gigabit network.

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