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Local tech companies need housing to draw talent
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Contributor, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 29, 2015 — Seaside, CA [Editor’s note: To learn more about the MBEP economic summit, read this Monterey Herald article, and view Bud […]
Invent Your Future Here — Monterey Bay, January 29
By Sara Isenberg Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 20, 2015 — Monterey, CA [Editor’s note: January 26, 2015: This article has been updated with the day’s agenda for this January 29 event. It is […]
President Obama’s community broadband initiative follows Santa Cruz’s path
By Steve Blum TellUs Venture Associates Contributor, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Broadband competition makes local businesses competitive. January 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA It looks like Santa Cruz County is on the White House’s […]
Broadband breakout in 2015 for California’s central coast
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Santa Cruz Tech Beat, for which I sometimes write, published its picks for top stories of 2014. It’s a good list and takes a holistic view of the local […]
Broadband: Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Silicon Valley leaders look to Santa Cruz for broadband leadership Santa Cruz shows Silicon Valley a better path. Santa Cruz County’s broadband initiative is one of the ten best […]
Santa Cruz broadband initiatives adopted as models for California
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Santa Cruz County’s initiative to fast track broadband infrastructure upgrades by cutting red tape and the Central Coast Broadband Consortium’s fiber mapping project were spotlighted by the California Broadband […]
Survey finds a wealth of fiber in Santa Cruz, but it’s mostly exclusive wealth
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Santa Cruz – the city and surrounding unincorporated communities – is laced with fiber optic cables. That’s the finding of a survey commissioned by the Central Coast Broadband Consortium […]
Bitcoin grows where broadband flows in Santa Cruz
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates No Internet access, no Bitcoin. If a merchant wants to take payment in Bitcoins at the cash register – or anywhere else – both he and his customer have […]
Governor’s pen will write the story for community broadband development in California
by Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Three bills with big implications for community broadband in California are still sitting on Governor Brown’s desk, waiting for his approval or veto: Assembly bill 2272 would blow a […]
CPUC approves Santa Cruz broadband priorities developed in Civinomics workshop
by Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Click map for the big map. Twelve central coast communities, including three in Santa Cruz County, have been designated as priority areas for broadband infrastructure development by the California […]