Blogs

Introduction

Cruzio is revamping our award-winning website, cruzio.com and we're requesting proposals from local web designers and design teams to manage this project. It's been several years since we last overhauled cruzio.com, and we're excited to collaborate with our thriving tech community on the next step in our site's evolution.

Cruzio requires a

Photos from 2013's Open House Extravaganza: the snacks were delicious. The art was plentiful and varied. The crowd was friendly and the accordionist played on...

At MakersFactory, Gamealot showed game pieces, some made by 3D printing 

Dave Britton shows a visitor around MakersFactory:
 

Back in the coworking atrium, people enjoy art, snacks, beer and

 Chris Guillebeau presented his new book 'The $100 Startup' on Monday, January 21st with over 175 people in Cruzio's coworking space, Cruzioworks. Chris discussed the focus of his new book briefly but a majority of his time was spent as "Q&AA" which stands for Questions and Attempted Answers. Chris took questions from everything regarding his thoughts on

Cruzio is a service company and we must be open on most holidays. We thank our staff for supporting our members, and we try to honor and celebrate Martin Luther King day, even though we are at the office.

Here is an email from a Cruzio manager to the Cruzio Tech Support staff on an MLK day several years ago :

"From brittany Mon Jan 15 11:49:07 2001

Hi

The City of Santa Cruz and Code for America, a national nonprofit that uses talented web professionals to improve government services, are proud to announce the public launch of OpenCounter,  an online small business permitting system.

Designed and developed throughout 2012, OpenCounter reduces the confusion of starting a business by creating an online

 Cruzio's Industy — telecommunications — keeps changing and our valiant staff works hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every year, we adopt new technology and even invent new ways of doing business. 2012 was a busy year for us, culminating in a being named Business of the Year from the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce (a huge honor!)Here's a look back at we've

We work hard at Cruzioworks. Many small companies and individuals have their own goals but also help each other and find interesting ways to collaborate. We work all sorts of hours, use tremendous amounts of Internet and drink amazing amounts of caffeinated beverages. 

And frequently, one of our coworking companies finishes a project. Elegant, useful,

Last week, Cruzio had our staff party in our headquarters.  We love our staff, they are what makes us so popular in our community and makes it great to work here. We rely on each other all year; every single staff member deserves accolades. Well, we did the best we could accolading, many thanks to Nikkie, Jahnai & Gershom for setting it all up:

Balloons were

Santa Cruz has always been known as a beach community, an oasis where Bay Area citizens can escape into the sunny bliss of rolling surf and beautiful redwoods. However, in recent months, Santa Cruz is making waves in another way, following Kansas City, Chattanooga and Lafayette in creating a hyper-connected "Gig City."

But where other cities have relied on

Wonderful party/showcase last week when hundreds of people came to celebrate local business at the Think Local First mixer at Cruzioworks in downtown Santa Cruz.

Buying locally puts a much higher percentage of your dollars back into your own community where it can be used to foster a safer, cleaner, better environment in which to live in and raise

 TechRaising, April 20th 2012.

Friday night, pitches!

The organizers:

Margaret Rosas

Matthew Swinnerton

Andrew Mueller

And then the mentors

Who wants to pitch? Raise your hands.

Then the pitchers got up and explained their ideas

The most ambitious was an auto-driving auto (self-driving car) motorway

Ryan from Cruzio pitched a zany hardware

Cruzio/Hope Services E-Waste Recycling Day

HOPE Services
220 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz
(see a map)

It's time to do a little winter cleaning. No, don't stress!

Just take a look in your closet. Do you see an old VCR tucked behind some moth-eaten sweaters? Check your garage. Is that a broken fax machine, there

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

6-9pm

877 Cedar Street

Free and open to the public

 

 

Local. Artistic. Small business.

The words are used time and again in Santa Cruz with good reason. We all love living here in our little slice of paradise. And we want to stay here. With our friends. Our local friends, who happen to be artistic and gifted and running a small business.

Support your community this holiday season by supporting these

There's a reason we're calling our new Internet service "Velocity."

First, though, we've got to give a disclaimer. Velocity speeds vary widely depending on your location and the quality of your lines. In Santa Cruz County, where our geography is mountainous and there are many rural areas, we know there are a lot of places where speeds would be only a small