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How 6 Remarkable Women Are Making Waves in Surf City
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat February 17, 2014 — Santa Cruz,CA A few weeks ago, a UC Santa Cruz professor wrote to me: “I teach an entrepreneurship class and have […]
Ted Holladay Roast: do you think anyone will mention his hair?
Event Santa Cruz is up to new tricks. Matthew Swinnerton, the man behind Event Santa Cruz, has just announced a Roast of local designer Ted Holladay, the main creative behind Studio Holladay. (Think anyone will […]
Launch Brigade founder will participate in Propel Small Business Growth program
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Chris Miller, founder of Launch Brigade, a local web development agency run out of NextSpace Santa Cruz, has been accepted into the Propel Small Business Growth program. […]
JamBandit puts music fans in the spotlight
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat “Just you, a touchscreen, and the magical ability to play the song.” Thirty years ago, UCSC Professor Emeritus David Cope was publishing the first of his many […]
Rising hopes for turbocharging Salinas Valley economy with fiber to Santa Cruz
by Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates With a fat broadband pipe direct to Santa Cruz. A dark fiber link between Santa Cruz and broadband-deprived areas of the Salinas Valley is closer to becoming a reality, […]
When the news becomes the news
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Typically, I’m the one who finds, curates, and publishes the local tech scene news. I tend to stay behind the scenes, except perhaps at the Santa Cruz […]
PredPol Hires New CEO
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Local tech start-up PredPol has landed a new leader to guide its rapid growth by adding Silicon Valley veteran (and local resident) Larry Samuels as CEO. Samuels […]
A visit to The Gateway School Discovery Lab
by Chris Neklason Co-CEO of Cruzio On an unseasonably warm and sunny January morning, Peggy and I walked over to Gateway School over on the Santa Cruz West Side and across from Lighthouse Field to […]
CSUMB calls for students, mentors, and pitchers to Ideas of March
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat The Ideas of March is a three day Android App development competition at CSUMB that brings together teams of students and software developers to work together on […]
Santa Cruz entrepreneurs plot disruption with DNA and bicycles
by Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Daylight cruise, night time workout. “I look for transitions in markets”, said Neal Saiki, the founder of NTS Works as he explained why he’s designing and building high tech, […]