In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph.

Seeking funding for your hot new startup? Or are you an investor weighing the risk vs return on the many new tech startups entering the market? Toby Corey invites Santa Cruz Works Members to join him on September 27 at Startup Investment and Community Capital Expo. And he is offering you a sweet deal.

Check out our interview with Nina Hersher from the Digital Wellness Collective. We discuss why Digital Wellness is so important and what to expect in the workshop Digital Wellness Collective is putting on for Santa Cruz Works members, partners and sponsors.

Link is a tool developed by Your Future Is Our Business (YFIOB), a Santa Cruz County non-profit that provides students with work based learning experiences and career exploration. YFIOB developed LINK to provide educators with access to a network of committed community members who are offering to help youth. To learn more about Your Future Is Our Business and the experiences we provide, please go to YFIOB.org.

In 2019, TalentLMS surveyed 450 employees to figure out how remote employees work and train best for their at-home roles. Take a look at some of their answers to figure out how you and your company can become more successful at offering and conducting remote work. Please refer to TalentLMS for additional information: TalentLMS

One of the fastest moving companies in the “no-code” app development space is Crowd Machine, a Santa Cruz Works Tier Partner. COO James Hanley talks about distributed computing and plate spinning; Content Manager Kimberley Whitfield talks about Santa Cruz’s exploding tech community; Application Engineer Rami Alrwais explains how the platform functions in the cloud; and Marketing Manager Sarah Pierce promises an interpretive dance. Rami, Sarah and Kimberly will demo their product Crowd Machine GO next Wednesday noon at an event they’re calling “Digital Evolution of the Enterprise. Click on in for details.

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.

Over 250 people filled every seat in the house for the first annual Get Biotech 2019. Keynote speaker David Deamer enthralled the audience with his journey which started with a Sunday drive, conceiving an idea, pulling over to the side of the road, sketching it out, and going on to become a cornerstone of the massive nanopore growth industry.

Modarri, a toy invented by Santa Cruz’s David Silverglade, combines two of the best toy ideas of all time—Hotwheels and Legos. Launched with a Kickstarter campaign in February of 2014, the toy has become a huge critical and financial success.

Almost 20 years after UC Santa Cruz researchers made history by assembling the first human genome sequence, the campus has formally established the UCSC Genomics Institute as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) providing support for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in genomics across multiple departments and divisions.

Kelli Dragovich brings over 20 years of experience to her role as the Chief People Officer at Looker where she leads the recruiting, operations, places and HR business partner teams. She joined Looker to help

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Santa Cruz entrepreneur Shiv Sikand has helped build what appears to be the most powerful Grand Touring car ever made; it is also quite possible that he and his San Jose-based company have reinvented the automobile.

Jacob Martinez is a social entrepreneur, tech educator, keynote speaker and cutting-edge community collaborator. Martinez believes technology has the potential to break down socioeconomic barriers and unlock economic growth for youth and their communities.

After 35 years in tech, where he served as CIO, VP for Apps and developer for various firms including Splunk, Doug Harr is now focused on business applications, business intelligence, cloud and big data. And—he as written a big, beautiful book about rock ’n’ roll, moved to Santa Cruz, and renovated the Westside’s weirdest landmark. 

SEASIDE, Calif., August 21, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) is set to host the 2019 Startup Investment & Community Expo on September, 27, 2019 at the Embassy Suites in Seaside.

A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and optofluidic technology with a feedback-control circuit to enable an unprecedented level of control over individual molecules and particles on a chip for high-throughput analysis.

In 1994, two UC Santa Cruz professors, Dr. Bernie Tershey and Dr. Don Croll, founded tIsland Conservation, a global conservation NGO whose sole mission was to prevent extinctions by removing invasive species from islands. Over the past 25 years, the organization, headquartered on Santa Cruz’s Westside, has cleared 63 islands of invasive species, protecting 1,173 populations of threatened animals.

Two years after opening its doors, biotech incubator Startup Sandbox is demonstrating that it’s ready to play in the big leagues. Five of the 20 biotech companies that have spent time at the incubator have proven their product ideas and grown large enough to move into their own offices. Nearly all of those companies have chosen to stay and hire in Santa Cruz.

Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (TPX), the company synonymous with innovation in the mattress industry, and Fullpower® Technologies, Inc., the sleep technology company, today announced a strategic partnership.