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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

What is the SBDC’s plan for 2020?

Santa Cruz County’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a premier hub of experts experienced in mainstreet, techstreet, and agribusiness. Business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs receive in-depth advising and training to obtain capital, launch businesses, grow sales, and create jobs.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Economic Impacts of Power Outage Survey

October was a dark month for much of northern California. In response to the growing, and now seemingly annual severe wildfire threat, Pacific Gas and Electric implemented mandatory power shutoffs that affected many parts of our community.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

AIoT Developer Summit December 2-3, 2019

The Arm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference that provides a platform for you to exchange knowledge, discuss real-world use cases and solutions, and get hands-on with expert-led, deep-dive training and workshops.​

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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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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Workbench - Building our Community: Interview on KSQD 90.7FM

In this live radio interview with Jamileh Cannon and Tim Gordin from Workbench we discuss what their motivation was to get into the world of design and construction, why more housing is happening in Santa Cruz County, how we can all support the community to keep on developing more housing and what motivates Workbench to do what they do.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Everything You always wanted to know about the Cloud

Cloud is perhaps the most ambiguous term in technology today. Cloud refers to a wide range of internet technology and use cases, yet the term is thrown around as if everyone should understand the context in which it was used in a given moment. It reminds me of the Finnish comedian Ismo and his take on American’s ambiguous use of some words.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

Santa Cruz Works Awards Local Subsidized Internships!

Congratulations to the companies that were selected for Santa Cruz Works’ subsidized internships. The winning businesses were selected on the basis of their focus on tech innovation, the ability to scale their business, and their entrepreneurial spirit.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Looker Announces Looker 7

Looker’s annual three-day conference for data professionals, the company announced Looker 7, its next-generation, enterprise-grade data platform.

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