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

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,

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

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

(Pictured above: Assemblymember Bill Monning with Peggy Dolgenos, CEO of

Did you know what you wanted to be when you were 20 years old? Tony Garcia did and still does. And if he had his druthers, he would levitate. Don't believe us? Read on...

1. What is your favorite aspect of coworking?

I like Cruzioworks' downtown location, natural lighting, and the fact it's also a retail location so there are new people in all the time.

Kevin describes himself as a "Chief Marketplace Evangelist" for hrmarketer.com. When he's not giving marketing and public relations advice to businesses, he enjoys the drums and the stylings of Rush drummer Neil Peart.

1. What is your favorite thing about coworking?

The intimacy of networking with others outside of your organization. Meeting folks outside

Mac is an associate for DocuBiz, a company that creates documentaries for businesses and organizations from a range of industries in order to educate and inspire others with similar interests. The goal of DocuBiz is to unite commerce and community. 

 1. What is your favorite aspect of coworking?  

The moments in-between working. Coworking provides an

Brand new opening -- will be a window!

The Sentinel building used to be a long, uninterrupted wall of 10" thick concrete down most of a block of Cedar Street. It had an element of Willy Wonka's factory: what's going on inside? You could see the newspaper's presses through the far window, but other than that all was dark.

When Cruzio, Ecology Action and Joe

Adam Markowitz, veteran software engineer, founded Aire Software in 2009. Besides his daily dose of software development, Adam loves martial arts—specifically Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo and Traditional Okinawan Karate. He also performs and teaches flamenco guitar. 

1. What is your favorite aspect of coworking? 

The social networking associated with

Cruzioworks hosted a New Tech Meetup session, attended by many of Santa Cruz's geekiest citizens. The Meetup, headed by David Britton, always has interesting presentations and is a great way to meet other local technologists and see what's going on in town. If you haven't already, join at their website  -- it's easy and free of charge. 

The speakers:

Shane

People we saw at the Techraising.

Everyone was pretty energized, even after a couple of late nights. I'm not good with names so I won't even try to attribute all the photos... just the first few.

First up are the awesome organizers.  (Lots more info about the techraising on TechRaising.com ).

Matthew Swinnerton 
  

Margaret Rosas 

Andrew Mueller 

And now on to