Startup Sessions: When You Have A Good Idea, You Go All In — Guest Speaker Jano Banks

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

Jano Banks, recently retired Big Tech disruptor and one of our Shasta Angels, will join us to share his journey including roles in the invention of HDMI, Google, and Apple. Join us on the journey to build the most supportive startup community in the world! Come enjoy a cold beverage, meet other founders, and build […]

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Winter Pitch Breakfast

Heritage Coffeehouse (Redding) 2250 Churn Creek, Redding, United States

Pitch Breakfast brings together aspiring founders and Redding's entrepreneurial community for a morning of presentations, networking, and idea sharing. Business pitches at the Winter Pitch Breakfast: Matthew Hugg will present his business Bloom. Bloom is a startup that plans to revolutionize the work force by unlocking employee productivity through play Barak Cilluffo will present his […]

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A.I. Connect: Use your imagination to generate brand new images in seconds

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

This month we're exploring an amazing image-generation tool called Leonardo AI! You'll be able to generate custom images and graphics live without a graphic designer or learning complicated design principles. Leonardo is unlike other image generative AI software. It allows the user greater control and tons of features. Come check it out, you're going to […]

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Startup Sessions: Navigating Risk, Success, and Failure, with an Entrepreneurial Spirit — Guest Speaker Bryan Rheem

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

Bryan Rheem, entrepreneur and business advisor, is joining us to share lessons from his startup experience and advisory roles — specifically his love of learning, balancing failure and success, and leveraging hard lessons in the ever-shifting world of business. Join us on the journey to build the most supportive startup community in the world! Come […]

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A.I. Connect: Create one-of-a-kind music, voiceovers, voice clones, and more

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

This month we're exploring A.I. audio. We're going to create music, voiceovers, voice clones, and more with two powerful tools called Suno AI and ElevenLabs! We'll also talk about how these tools can be leveraged with other tools to extend into other use cases. You'll be able to generate one-of-a-kind songs, professional voiceovers, and even […]

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Startup Sessions: Strategies Entrepreneurs Can Use To Solve BIG Problems! — Guest Speaker Jenny Rae Le Roux

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

We're excited to host entrepreneur and CEO Jenny Rae Le Roux. Jenny is joining us to share pro strategies that entrepreneurs can use to solve big problems! With 15+ years in business consulting and clients at Meta, CVS, and Harvard you know Jenny's intel is going to be good! Grab your free ticket below! Join […]

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Startup Sessions: Leveraging SBA Funding and Beyond — Guest Speaker Trisha Funk

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

We're excited to host Trisha Funk from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Trisha is joining us to share about funding and how you can leverage and use funding sources from the SBA and what is currently available. Trisha is an expert in the finance realm, ready to illuminate the path to funding success through the […]

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A.I. Connect: Revisiting ChatGPT & HeyGen — Incredible AI tools with new features to explore!

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

This month we're circling back to ChatGPT and HeyGen. We've explored both in the past and based on our latest poll... the community wants more! If you were at our previous events when we taught these tools there will be new things to learn. If you missed the events where we've talked about these we'll […]

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Startup Sessions: How to Open Your Business in a Physical Space — Expert Panel Discussion

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

Let's talk about how you can successfully open your business in a brick and mortar storefront! Join our panel discussion covering the different aspects of going brick-and-mortar. We've invited commercial real estate broker Chris Haedrich, founders of Friday's Vintage Paige and Dylan Mosshart, and the senior planner for the city of Shasta Lake Peter Bird. […]

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A.I. Connect: Canva’s “Magic Studio” is the best all-around tool for creative business people

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

This month we're diving into Canva's "Magic Studio". The company just refreshed their platform and rolled out a suite of new A.I. tools which made us look twice. We believe Canva has created the best all around platform for business people to express their creativity. From Marketing and Creative to Sales and HR, Canva has […]

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Startup Sessions: The Tricky Task of Understanding Your Market — Guest Speaker Danny Lee

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

We're excited to host Danny Lee from Taste & See Creamery and Cinder's Wood Fired Pizza. Danny is joining us to share what he's learned about launching a food service business, understanding our local market, and the resiliency needed to keep going when things don't go your way. Join us on the journey to build […]

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Startup Sessions: Mastering Marketing and Customer Retention — Guest Speaker Faith Barrett

Viva Downtown 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, United States

Come join us and Faith Barrett, a local realtor, who has rapidly grown their business by excelling in marketing and customer retention. Faith will share her strategies for building strong customer relationships and effective marketing techniques. Don’t miss this chance to learn how to keep your customers coming back and grow a well loved brand. […]

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