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Sept 2013: Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation in Santa Cruz

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In conjunction with City of Santa Cruz Economic Development, Cruzio, and NextSpace, SCNT MeetUp presents: Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation - a series of 3 monthly events celebrating the successes, journeys, and best practices of tech innovation in Santa Cruz.

Each monthly event will start with an update from Sara Isenberg / Santa Cruz Tech Beat on the top 3 stories re: tech in Santa Cruz.

Next up, a guest speaker will chronicle the The History of Tech Innovation in Santa Cruz – the 80's, the 90's, and today . Peggy Dolgenos, founder of Cruzio will present the 80's for the September MeetUp.  If you have memories you would like Peggy to share with the audience, please add your ideas at: https://civinomics.com/workshop/4JjQ/25-years-of-santa-cruz-geekery

Now for the meat of the MeetUp.

  • Journey of the Startup – three (3) Santa Cruz county startups will present their company, their journey from idea to business, an overview/demo of their product / solution innovation, followed by a Q&A from the audience.  Realtime audience participation will be offered through an online Idea Contest, rewarding the audience with food & beverage certificates for the best idea on how s/he would/could use each presenting company's product/solution.  Looker and X2Engine will kick off the Sept 4 event, and Tomfoolery will kick off the October event.
  • Pitch Sessions - three (3) individuals/teams will be given 5 minutes each to pitch their startup idea. Each individual or team will have 2.5 minutes to present their pitch deck to a panel of mentors.  Mentors will then have 2.5 minutes to deliver feedback.  Our audience will have the opportunity to interact with "Pitchers" and mentors.  Qualification to pitch: you must have a pitch deck that can be presented in 2.5 minutes, and you must be actively working on your idea/startup in Santa Cruz. For consideration, please contact Doug Erickson via the SCNT MeetUp.  This session will be moderated by Andrew Mueller from TechRaising.  Mentors to be announced.

Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 100+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. This event will be packed, so be sure to RSVP early.  Doors open at 6:30pm, presentations start at 7:00pm.  Audience entry fee is $5.  Food & beverage will be included. RSVP NOW!!!

 

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  • Jeff R.
    Jeff R.

    Great event! I learned a lot!

    1 · September 5, 2013

  • Robert B.
    Robert B.

    I also want to thank Doug for his great effort. I'm not sure how much he's getting paid to do this but its clearly not enough. The evening had the same level of excitement as the early New Tech MeetUps. Cruzio is a perfect venue for this. So thanks also to Peggy.

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Jan J.
    Jan J.

    What a great first meeting to attend: fabulous organization, insightful slide deck overview by Looker team, a snapshot of history from Cruzio, background on X2CRM and three great pitches. Looking forward to many more meet ups, thanks Doug!

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Andrew M.
    Andrew M.

    It was great fun and so inspiring to see the tech community come together, interact, show their wares, and tell their stories. Well done.

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Lissa D.
    Lissa D.

    I look forward to the others.

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Patrick R.
    Patrick R.

    Great content. Try putting the pitches on first.

    2 · September 4, 2013

    • Doug E.
      Doug E.

      yeah the Pitch Session was awesome! We thought it best to have it at the end, so as not to put too much pressure on the Pitch contestants at the beginning of the event. We could switch it around. Like Vasu says "Santa Cruz has got talent!"

      September 5, 2013

  • Will M.
    Will M.

    Superb MeetUp, great job Doug!

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Mary E.
    Mary E.

    great. entertaining and informative

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Christy
    Christy

    Great job organizing this Doug! It was a nice mix of topics and inspiring to hear about the startup activity in Santa Cruz.

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • David W.
    David W.

    Great meetup Doug (and family)!

    2 · September 5, 2013

  • Doug E.
    Doug E.

    http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_24019784/santa-cruz-showcases-technology

    1 · September 4, 2013

  • Linda R.
    Linda R.

    Wow. What a night! A packed house & a jam-packed panel of A+ speakers. Looking forward to the next meeting!

    2 · September 4, 2013

  • Sara I.
    Sara I.

    Doug, you did a great job in putting this event together!

    2 · September 4, 2013

  • Simone C.
    Simone C.

    lots of FUN. Looking forward to the next one.

    3 · September 4, 2013

  • Doug E.
    Doug E.

    Prizes for tonight's event generously provided by: Mission Hill Creamery, Toadal Fitness, and Petroglyph.

    2 · September 4, 2013

  • Doug E.
    Doug E.

    Stoked that Julia Gaudinski CEO of Mobile Ranger will be one of three startups in the Pitch Session! http://www.mobileranger.com

    1 · September 4, 2013

  • crablouis
    crablouis

    Sorry to be missing this.

    August 30, 2013

  • Doug E.
    Doug E.

    Great article on Evernote. I remember when Phil presented at the Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup, when Evernote is was just a twinkle in his eye. So happy for Phil and team! http://mashable.com/2013/08/27/evernote-scaling/

    August 28, 2013

  • Millie H.
    Millie H.

    My husband, he's the more technical one anyway.

    July 28, 2013

  • Steve B.
    Steve B.

    Long time SC resident in high tech - want to know more about hi tech in SC

    July 22, 2013

  • Sara I.
    Sara I.

    Thanks, Doug, for posting this announcement about Santa Cruz Tech Beat. SCTB news is aggregated so we absolutely we ask members of the community to submit news related to Santa Cruz Tech. Submit here: http://santacruztechbeat.com/submit. Thanks!

    1 · July 22, 2013

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