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Tag: NextSpace Sat, March 13, 2010

• NextSpace Eyes Tannery Location

  Nov 25, 2009, by Danny Wool Business

  Santa Cruz’s historic Salz Tannery is latest recipient of federal stimulus funding. About $4.7 million will be used to renovate the Beam House and Tanyard Center, and convert them into a high tech incubator for local digital media companies. The total cost of the project is $6.7 million, covered largely by a $1.9 million grant from the California Cultural and Historical Endowment. A performing arts center is also scheduled to be built on the site, which already has 100 affordable housing and working units.

• Health Care Hurdles for Local Entrepreneurs

  Sep 16, 2009, by Ryan Coonerty and Jeremy Neuner Opinion

  Ryan Coonerty and Jeremy Neuner, two of the principals of entrepreneur magnet NextSpace, make the case for a health care system that isn’t tied to employment. “Ensuring that entrepreneurs have health care coverage will be a critical ingredient for our economic recovery and our future,” they write.

• The Freelance Mystique

  Sep 07, 2009, by Traci Hukill Business
  

  Not every freelancer is bubbling over with entrepreneurial zeal. Some do it because their industry has steadily shaved off staffers and outsourced tasks in order to save money. For others, child care or similar work-life considerations are at the root of the decision to freelance—blurring the line over whether freelancing, with its sporadic pay and other associated brutalities, is a matter of choice or necessity.

• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Freelancers

  Sep 03, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Business
  

  You’d think the easiest way to find out about the effectiveness of “coworking”—the phenomenon whereby work-at-homers, freelancers and other indie business strangers elect to set up shop in a building and find out what happens—is to ask the coworkers (not to be confused with the tradition-bound drones known as “co-workers”) themselves. Trouble is, they’re all too busy working.

• Self-Employment Gets A Grip in Santa Cruz

  Sep 03, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Business
  

  They’ve come from around the country and the world to gather on the bare concrete floor of an empty office building and talk shop. A sea of laptop-clutching writers, photographers, graphic designers, IT specialists, engineers, public relations officials and advertisement representatives with one thing in common: they never want to work for another boss again.

• YouTube + Philanthropy = Santa Cruz Startup

  Aug 26, 2009, by Staff Business

  Laika Grant Mann’s Worldflix offers potential donors an opportunity to watch interviews with the people who would benefit from their largesse.

• NextSpace Lets Local Startups Stay in Santa Cruz

  Jul 06, 2009, by Staff report Business

  It’s well known in Santa Cruz that many firms that were launched here would rather stay local than make the move up north or across the country. Now that’s becoming more common. NextSpace co-founder Ryan Coonerty, who also serves on City Council, says that over 40 businesses have been drawn to downtown Santa Cruz through the co-working center he started with former economic development director Jeremy Neuner.