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.

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.

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.

In Part 4 of our series comparing living and working in Santa Cruz vs San Francisco or the Silicon Valley, we talk to local entrepreneurs about our best kept secrets.

In Make Me Smart podcast # 135, “Your Outfit is Trash”, our tech heroine Molly Wood interviews Dana Thomas. We learn that a garment in the US is only worn 7 times before it is tossed into landfill.

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.

Minutes before we went live on this week’s newsletter, we learned that UCSC’s Girls in Engineering was awarded a $10,000 grant by Amazon Santa Cruz. The full story at Santa Cruz Tech Beat.

Take a look at how quickly you can internally embed analytics with Looker.

When the nonprofit Girls Who Code started a new “College Loops” program last year, students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to establish a branch

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.

What is the long range development plan that UCSC is implementing to house students? Get the facts and figures. Download the Community Minded brochure and check out the website.

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.

3 million: the number of results you’ll get searching for the term “employee retention”.

Read some of those 3 million blog posts, news articles and surveys, and you’ll notice a pattern. They’re all about why people quit their jobs, the cost of employee turnover

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.​

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.

We are in crisis. The realities in San Francisco and Silicon Valley set a very bleak stage. Where do you call Home?

This $10,000 Matching Gift Challenge was announced at Digital NEST's 5th Birthday Party on November 10, 2019 by founding Board members Rose Filicetti and Michele Bassi.  

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.

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.

Nicole Beck, founder and CEO of 2NDNATURE, is working to decrease water pollution and transform the rain that falls on our cities back into a valuable resource.