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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Microsoft Launches Effort to Provide Digital Skills to 25M People This Year

Microsoft launched an initiative Monday to teach digital skills to 25 million people who lost their jobs due to Covid-19 by the end of 2020. The company will combine resources from itself and its subsidiaries LinkedIn and GitHub to identify in-demand jobs and skills, provide free skills and job-seeking tools and low-cost certifications.

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Netflix Names Bozoma Saint John As The New CMO

Netflix is bringing in Bozoma Saint John to serve as its chief marketing officer, making her the third CMO for the streamer in the last year. Saint John will join Netflix from Endeavor, where she has served as CMO since 2018.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Education Summit

Each year, Education Summit brings together 400+ leaders from business, education, and the public sector for Silicon Valley’s premier education and talent development conference.

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Santa Cruz Works Clinic: Conscious Capitalism

On July 16, Santa Cruz Works and Sequoia Wealth Advisors will host a webinar on Conscious Capitalism. Conscious Capitalism is rapidly becoming the way of the future for forward-looking companies. Our speaker is Kristina Kuprina, CIMA of Sequoia Wealth Advisors.

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Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Online

Join us for a 2-Session Business Plan Bootcamp! This online course is for entrepreneurs seeking an accelerated program to create their business plan.

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Recording: Nir Eyal's Indistractable

We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. Why does it feel like we're distracting our lives away? In Indistractable, behavioral designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Advancing Drone Technology for People and the Planet

Island Conservation is releasing a request for proposals for a heavy-lift drone with advanced capabilities to improve technology and methodology for the removal of invasive rats from the Ulong Island group in Palau’s Rock Island Southern Lagoon.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

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.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

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.

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