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Regeneración : Climate of Hope
Join us August 5 for Climate of Hope: a seminar about solving the challenges of rising global temperatures, and impact to local agriculture.
The New Santa Cruz Bicycles 5010 | Get Creative With Your Surroundings
We just had to share this fun video by Santa Cruz Bicycles. The Santa Cruz 5010 is the bike that makes any trail feel as familiar as the back of your hand.
What Can Looker Do For Your Business?
Looker is a Data Platform that makes it easy for everyone to find, explore and understand the data that drives your business.
Clinic: Startup Equity Crowdfunding
This recorded online clinic explored the challenges and rewards of startup equity crowdfunding. Topics: 1) are you fundable, 2) what are the new funding opportunities, and 3) what strategies should you deploy.
A Clinic of Your Choice
Have you ever wanted to ask an economist your top questions about the economy, investing, or conscious capitalism? Here is your opportunity to impact an entire Santa Cruz Works clinic about the economic topic of your choice.
5 Ways to Distraction-Train Your Mind
This article “5 Ways to Distraction-Proof Your Mind” by Nir Eyal is a taste of what you will learn in our upcoming webinar on July 1: Indistractable
Santa Cruz is the First City to Ban Predictive Policing
California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
Using Sprints in a Nonprofit: Interview with Eric Ressler from Cosmic
This was a great conversation with Cosmic's Founder, Eric Ressler about how Cosmic are rapidly spreading Agile approaches to their nonprofit clients. Eric explains how and why they use Sprints and the huge impact and faster approaches this brought to the nonprofits.
Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders
Google for Startups Accelerator for Women Founders is a three-month digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in the U.S. and Canada.
Design Software Unicorn Canva Hits $6 Billion Valuation
Its design software business booming in a work-from-home pandemic environment, Canva has raised new funding that values the startup at $6 billion.
Looking to Hire a Content Marketer/Creator? We Got Your Guy!
This is what happens when you quarantine an unemployed content marketer/creator with all of his studio gear that is looking for a job.
The Future of Education Recordings
The Future of Education webinar on June 17, 2020 was a great success. We learned from educational thought leaders such as tech giants Microsoft and Google their plans for uplifting our schools.
The Billionaire Founder of Netflix is Giving $120 Million to Black Colleges
Netflix founder Reed Hastings is making the single biggest donation, by a couple or an individual, to racial justice in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, putting $120 million into America’s historically black colleges and universities
The Most Important Skill of the Future is Being ‘Indistractable’
“If you ask me what superpower I’d want, I know the answer: I want to the power to be indistractable.”
How to Create Strategic Partnerships That Lead to Growth & Acquisition Webinar
Geoff Dillon, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor that has been through his fair share of acquisitions in a variety of industry segments discuss the process he uses to determine and create strategic partnerships that can drive sales, increase valuation, and ultimately be leveraged to create “early exits” for a company.
Netflix’s Billionaire Founder is Secretly Building a Luxury Retreat for Teachers in Rural Colorado
His Colorado retreat is the latest in Reed Hastings’s decades-long attempt to figure out how exactly he wants to spend his now-$5 billion of net worth to improve American schools.
The Largest ONEWHEEL Group Ride in the World!!
Onewheel called upon their awesome community to send in a video of themselves riding in their hometowns all across the globe. Over 1,000+ riders from all over the world rode across the frame to create the worlds largest group ride.
Gasoline out of Thin Air: Our Investment With Prometheus Fuels
Imagine you drive to the gas station and pump your car with gas...except, this time, your weekly pit stop won’t affect the environment whatsoever. The new kind of gasoline coursing through your vehicle doesn’t add CO2 to the atmosphere.
SC Tech Exchange in Streaming Recording
Clinic recording of local Filip Iliescu /Santa Cruz Tech Exchange demonstrating what equipment is needed for Performance to host a professional online event.
The Trouble With Hybrid Models for Reopening K-12 Schools
This article is written by Brianna Donaldson. Hybrid models will impact underserved communities. If you are interested in this topic, please join us for The Future of Education on June 17.

