Freelance Camp

Santa Cruz 09 Sponsor: Baskin & Grant

// April 23rd, 2009 // Comments // Santa Cruz 2009

Since 1979, Baskin & Grant has been committed to providing excellent legal services in a broad range of practice areas. Their services include Intellectual Property, Business Law, Family Law, Estate Planning, and Civil litigations. Baskin & Grant emobides the relaxed and accessible ambiance of Santa Cruz, with the intensity, focus, and success rate of a big city firm.

For this legal firm, it is all about keeping the client involved and notified, while maintaining the highest levels of professionalism in achieving success. As managing partner Caleb Sequoia Baskin says “It’s our job to help our clients make good decisions”. This type of outlook has allowed Baskin & Grant to rank in the top 5% of all legal firms, based on AV ratings from Martindale-Hubble.

Their success and involvement goes beyond their resume and mission statement. For Baskin & Grant, the social is just as important as legal justice. Baskin & Grant commitment towards social justice and involvement in the community has made it a true gem in the Santa Cruz area.

Visit them at http://www.baskingrant.com/

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Run Your Own Camp: Finding Sponsors

// April 18th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

We have received a significant number of questions on how to run a freelance camp. In order to help as best as possible, Dmitry and I will be writing a series of articles detailing the lessons we have learned over the past year.

Running your own camp is a pretty straight forward process! The bar camp model is quite well documented and we borrow heavily from it. Dmitry is gathering a number of blog posts and will begin making a basic checklist.

There are two questions that comprise most of the emails we get: “How do I find Sponsors?” and “How do I get people to come?”.

To kick it off, I wrote a post last month on my own blog to help answer questions regarding finding sponsors: http://blog.shaneandpeter.com/2009/03/19/finding-sponsors/. I am re-posting the article below with a few modifications:
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Sponsor: Lighthouse Bank

// June 10th, 2008 // Comments // Santa Cruz 2008

It is nice to know that you money is safe these days. No mortgage backed security loans, no funny business. Just local money loaned out to local people. We are quite proud to have lighthouse bank as a sponsor. They just recently opened their door with a very nice office at the top of downtown on 111 mission street.

Say hello to Eric Mortneson for me and tell him we sent you.

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Sponsor: NextSpace

// June 3rd, 2008 // Comments // Santa Cruz 2008

Sometimes, things line up well. Santa Cruz is going to have its very own coworking space, and that space is going to become available quite soon after freelance camp. Timing = perfect. We are proud to have them as a sponsor and can’t wait to see what happens with the space. They should have their rates and availability up soon. Hope to see you there.

www.nextspace.us

The mission of NextSpace is to catalyze local talent, local ideas, and local capital to create products, services, and solutions for the global marketplace.

NextSpace is a coworking space where Santa Cruz’s entrepreneurs, innovators, designers, developers, strategists, mentors, and investors can come together to catalyze the next generation of the Santa Cruz economy. Sure, all of these people have their own businesses to run, their own daily grinds to grind. But the beauty of a coworking space is the interaction, connections, collaboration, and serendipity that occur when a bunch of smart, talented, passionate people work in proximity to one another. We call it the NextSpace Effect. Just how strong is that effect? Join us and find out.

Come in. Connect. Catalyze. Create.