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Clinic: Building your Sales & Processes for a Predictable Pipeline
Learn how to create an infrastructure (process, tools, messaging) that will allow your sales team to be more effective. Each of your product features will be quantified by its direct (or indirect) impact to the customer.
Cruz Foam is Hiring!
Looking to work for a company and make a difference for the good in our environment? Cruz Foam has two new open positions. Quality Control / Lab Technician & Production/Process Engineer.
Santa Cruz Works Announces Changes to Team
Recent UCSC graduate Adrian Dolatschko is leaving Santa Cruz Works to launch his career at Gazelle. Malina Long joins Team Santa Cruz Works.
How to Adapt to the Future of Work
Join Santa Cruz Works and the Hoylu team for a webinar to see how companies adjust to remote and hybrid work models, keep their distributed teams aligned and engaged, and create work streams and processes to keep solving problems, innovate, and grow in these challenging times.
Joby Aviation Announces Infrastructure Partnership
Joby Aviation announced it has partnered with REEF Technology to develop takeoff and landing sites for its aerial ridesharing service, launching in 2024.
Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize
This is designed to find solutions that de-risk and increase market viability for direct lithium extraction (DLE) from geothermal brines.
New Bird Scooter with Robert Singleton
Robert Singleton gave us a sneak preview of the all new Bird Two scooter that many US cities are adopting. Micromobility is one the solutions for solving transportation congestion and global warming.
Recording: Modernizing Business with AI
This clinic co-hosted by Cloud Brigade explains AI and how it can increase sales, insights, customer satisfaction, and employee productivity.
Poly Enlist Holladay Talent
It’s no secret we are big fans of Studio Holladay’s work. When we heard Ted Holladay was working on a project for Poly we were very excited to see the results.
Zero Motorcycles at Get Hired 2021
The 5th Annual Get Hired will shine the spotlight on Santa Cruz companies like Zero Motorcycles. With millions of miles under their belt, and over 14 years of experience in the electric vehicles industry, Zero Motorcycles is a company that is leading the race in sustainable transportation and technology.
LIFEAID Beverage Company to Attend Get Hired 2021
You won’t want to miss the opportunity to learn more about the jobs at LIFEAID at the 5th Annual Get Hired. LIFEAID is a Fortune 500 company with headquarters in Santa Cruz whose success in the beverage industry speaks for itself.
The Great Electric Airplane Race
Can new emission-free electric planes replace our polluting airliners and revolutionize personal transportation in our cities?
California Ocean & Climate Justice Summit
Amplifying emerging BIPOC environmental justice leaders to inspire California to help regenerate the our ocean and lands.
MERGE4’s Taylor Reinhold x PangeaSeed Socks Are Back!
Santa Cruz based sock company, MERGE4 is excited to announce that customers can once again order the bestselling Taylor Reinhold x PangeaSeed socks.
SapientX raises over $800,000 and growing
1,600 individuals joined Santa Cruz startup SapientX to the tune of $800,000. There is still time for you to invest for as little as $100.
Craig Vachon to lead AI.r Company
The humorous author of “The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley”, Craig Vachon, is writing a very serious new chapter in his career: CEO at AI.r.
Get Hired 2021: Live & Work in Santa Cruz
The 5th Annual Get Hired on June 2 brings a new event format with Discovery and Recruiting breakrooms, a 30 minute Designing Your Life course by author Dave Evans, and 3 winning teams from UCSC CIED Idea Hub.
Cruz Foam on KSBW News
A lot of what we buy is packed in Styrofoam. It's hard to recycle and it's not biodegradable but a Santa Cruz County firm is looking to replace Styrofoam with a biodegradable packing made from shrimp.
Cruz Foam Secures $1M NSF Grant
Cruz Foam, the bio-benign foam and plastic packaging alternative provider, today announced it has secured $1 million in non-dilutive funding with an NSF SBIR Phase II Grant in support of the development of its patented sustainable packaging material.
Intentional Integrity with Rob Chesnut
Robert Chesnut, author of “Intentional Integrity, How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution—and Why That's Good for All of Us”. Recording and transcripts.

