Startup Redding

Startup Sessions: How to Open Your Business in a Physical Space — Expert Panel Discussion
2024-05-20 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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.
Whether you’re business is online now and your curious about what goes into taking your business into a brick and mortar location, or your going right into a physical location from the start — this event will provide valuable perspectives on the financial, legal, and strategic considerations of moving to a physical building.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

A.I. Connect: Revisiting ChatGPT & HeyGen — Incredible AI tools with new features to explore!
2024-05-01 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 get you up to speed.
ChatGPT is an amazing general purpose tool that every business person should consider inserting in their workflow. HeyGen will allow you to create custom video avatars for things like training videos, advertisements, sales outreach and more. We’ll talk about how these tools can be leveraged together or alone.
👉️ IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Startup Sessions: Leveraging SBA Funding and Beyond — Guest Speaker Trisha Funk
2024-04-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 SBA. With over two decades of expertise, from investment advising to championing financial literacy, Trisha’s insight could be your golden ticket to navigating the financial landscape.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Startup Sessions: Strategies Entrepreneurs Can Use To Solve BIG Problems! — Guest Speaker Jenny Rae Le Roux
2024-03-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 us on the journey to build the most supportive startup community in the world! Come enjoy a cold beverage, meet other founders, and build a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
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A.I. Connect: Create one-of-a-kind music, voiceovers, voice clones, and more
2024-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 a replica of your own voice without learning how to play an instrument or be a professional voiceover actor. Come check it out, you’re going to have fun!
👉️ IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop. Since we’re working with audio, consider bringing headphones for the best experience.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Startup Sessions: Navigating Risk, Success, and Failure, with an Entrepreneurial Spirit — Guest Speaker Bryan Rheem
2024-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 enjoy a cold beverage, meet other founders, and build a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

A.I. Connect: Use your imagination to generate brand new images in seconds
2024-02-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 have fun!
👉️ IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Winter Pitch Breakfast
2024-01-25 07:00 - 08:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Heritage Coffeehouse (Redding), 2250 Churn Creek, Redding, 96002, 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 business FlowLoopX. FlowLoopX has a mission to change how we capture kinetic energy and use it to power the world around us.

Enjoy a coffee and pastry as Matthew and Barak pitch their businesses. Then ask questions and offer feedback. Pitch Breakfast is an engaging and productive way to set the tone for a successful day!
Join us on the journey to build the most supportive startup community in the world! Come enjoy a beverage, meet other founders, and build a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Startup Sessions: When You Have A Good Idea, You Go All In — Guest Speaker Jano Banks
2024-01-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, 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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Is this the future? Learn to create digital avatars for your business!
2024-01-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
This month we’re talking about an amazing video tool called D-ID!
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With this tool you can bring digital characters to life and make them say anything you want! The character can be you, an A.I. generated person, or one of D-ID’s high quality characters. This tool is already being used for sales & marketing, internal training, and customer service. Join us to see what it’s all about!
👉️ IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register to help us plan food & drinks for the event

Startup Session: December Meetup
2023-12-11 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Description Coming Soon.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

The Winning Formula Entrepreneurs Use to Deliver Unbeatable Value
2023-11-13 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Learn the steps to understanding your customer and offering unbeatable value.
The more you know about your customer the better your business will be at offering value, making money, and scaling. Participants from last weekend’s Startup Games will join us to add their insight and share stories from their experience.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

Startup Games
2023-11-03 18:00 - 2023-11-05 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Redding’s Learn-to-Launch Entrepreneur Event
Join a team, make up a business, and present it like Shark Tank!
This event is for entrepreneurs, coders, designers, inventors, makers, artists, and anyone interested in building businesses.
If you’ve started a business or want to — this event is for you.
👇 👇 Learn all about the Startup Games on the event webpage

Learn to Tell Your Business Story and Attract More Customers
2023-09-18 17:15 - 19:00 UTC | Trilogy Guild, 2055 Pine Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Learn to tell your business’ story from an expert story crafter.
Storytelling will help you attract more customers, make more money, and be more memorable. It can also help your employees understand and adopt your company culture.
Anson Ben has been helping people craft their business stories for over a decade, and he was instrumental in bringing the TED Talk stage to India.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

A.I. Connect: Generate any image! Use A.I. to bring your imagination to life
2023-09-06 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Become a visual powerhouse without learning photography or graphic design! A.I. now allows you to turn your words into images and create anything you can imagine!
Join us for Startup Redding’s Artificial Intelligence meetup. At this month’s event, we’ll explore the popular A.I. image generation tool: Midjourney. There have been new featured added to this platform since we last looked at it.
You’ll be able to generate loads of custom images, graphics, and logos in a matter of minutes without needing a graphic designer or learning complicated design principles. We’ll guide you through practical exercises to arm you with the skills to leverage Midjourney’s potential for business growth.
IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

Multiple Ways to Fund Your Business
2023-08-21 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Looking for ways to fund your new business? Join us for a panel discussion on funding. We’ll have Ryan Richardson from the SCED, Sami Kader from the Shasta Angels, and Eric Woodstrom a former local bank with 40+ years of experience. Come with questions and leave with clarity on how to fund your business.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

A.I. Connect: New ways to use ChatGPT in your business!
2023-08-02 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
ChatGPT is the most versatile Artificial Intelligence tool around. Join us to walk through several ways it can be used to grow your business!
This month we’re returning to ChatGPT, the most well known AI tool on the market! We’ll walk through practical exercises to arm you with the skills to leverage A.I. for business growth.
IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

How to Create Irresistible Offers (Workshop)
2023-07-17 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Trilogy Guild, 2055 Pine Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Let’s workshop how you offer your products/services to customers. Together we’ll enhance it and make it irresistible! This month we’re workshopping how to create an irresistible offer that’s so good your customer will be unable to say no, or at least take a considerable amount of effort to say no. Bring what you have or start from scratch.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

A.I. Connect: July Meetup
2023-07-05 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States

Startup Session: How to Build The Right Team
2023-06-15 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States

A.I. Connect: June Meetup
2023-06-07 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States

Marketing Your Startup (When & How) — Guest Speaker LaDonna Baker
2023-05-18 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Marketing is more than running ads. It’s everything your business does while interacting with customers. LaDonna Baker has built a career growing small businesses and name brands. She’s worked with Virgin America, Expedia, The Gap, and is the current VP of sales with Bezalel Innovations, a Shasta County medical device startup. At this month’s Startup Session, she’ll discuss when and how startups should think about marketing their businesses.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

Redding Venture Conference
2023-04-21 10:00 - 18:00 UTC | Sheraton Redding Hotel at the Sundial Bridge, 820 Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
The Redding Venture Conference is back with a bang! This event connects west-coast startup founders with Shasta County, California investors. Think of it as Redding’s version of Shark Tank with the winner receiving a $10,000 cash prize and the potential for additional investment from our local Shasta Angels.
The 2023 conference will feature three modules:
1. Early Stage Pitches
2. Growth Stage Pitches
3. Presentations
Learn more about the schedule here: www.startupredding.com/venture
This is the third year we’re hosting this unique event. The energy is one of a kind, and the stakes have never been higher! The Redding Venture Conference gets real investors placing real money with regional companies. Join us and be part of the excitement!
👇 👇 Purchase tickets through Eventbrite.

Startup Session: Rapid Prototyping
2023-04-20 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States

Generate Any Image! Make MidJourney Your New A.I.-Graphic Designer
2023-04-05 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Become a visual powerhouse without learning photography or graphic design! A.I. now allows you to turn your words into images and create anything you can imagine!
Join us for Startup Redding’s Artificial Intelligence meetup. At this month’s event, we’ll explore the popular A.I. image generation tool: Midjourney.
You’ll be able to generate loads of custom images, graphics, and logos in a matter of minutes without needing a graphic designer or learning complicated design principles. We’ll guide you through practical exercises to arm you with the skills to leverage Midjourney’s potential for business growth.
IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

Pitch Breakfast
2023-03-30 07:00 - 08:30 UTC | From The Hearth, 1427 Market St., Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Pitch Breakfast brings together aspiring founders and the Redding community for a morning of networking and idea sharing. As attendees enjoy their breakfast, two founders will pitch their businesses to the room. The audience then has the opportunity to ask questions and offer feedback, making for an engaging and productive morning that sets the tone for a successful day.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

How to Find Your Business Blind Spots — Guest Speaker Jason Odell
2023-03-23 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
They say that knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom — Join us for a special presentation from Jason Odell the founder of Odell’s Craft Barbecue! Jason will delve into the importance of identifying and addressing blind spots as an entrepreneur. He will discuss the common blind spots that many entrepreneurs face. Through practical examples and exercises, attendees will gain insight into how to identify and overcome their own blind spots, ultimately leading to greater success and growth as entrepreneurs.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

The Future of Writing: Explore ChatGPT as Your New AI-Assisted Writing Tool
2023-03-01 05:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Strong communication is a key part of entrepreneurial success. If you’ve ever struggled to find the right words or face writer’s block then you’re going to love this!
Join us for the first-ever Startup Redding Artificial Intelligence meetup. During this time we’ll go from blank page to a finished book and we’ll do it all with the popular A.I. writing tool: ChatGPT.
Imagine having a writing assistant that could generate new ideas, optimize your content for marketing, and streamline your work in a fraction of the time it currently takes. We will guide you through hands-on exercises to help you leverage the power of ChatGPT to do all of these things.
IMPORTANT: This is a hands-on, project-based workshop so bring your laptop.
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

How to Pitch Your Startup to Investors — Guest Speaker Mark Miller
2023-02-16 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Viva Downtown, 1504 Market Street, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
A well-crafted pitch is the key to gaining investor attention. Join us for a special presentation from Mark Miller the CEO and Co-Founder of Labelcoin! Mark has spent the last year traveling America to pitch Labelcoin, and he’ll explain the techniques he uses to convince investors that the business is worth their attention.
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 a community that can support your business. Let’s connect and grow our businesses together! See you there!
👇 👇 Please register through Eventbrite. This helps us plan food and drinks for the event

SOLD OUT: Laser Engraving Workshop — Collab with Shasta High School
2023-01-25 17:30 - 20:30 UTC | Shasta High School, 2500 Eureka Way, Redding, CA, 96001, United States
Laser Engraving Workshop: Learn how to use a high-end laser engraving machine by crafting a laser-engraved water bottle or tumbler cup! Shasta High School has a multi-million dollar maker space and they are opening their doors to us. Brian Grigsby and Bret Barnes will be teaching a class on how to do laser engraving. Once you have been trained to use their engraver and other tools you’ll have access to use the engraver on your own time to make your own projects at no cost! Space is limited! There will need to be a min of 5 people and a max of 10 to host this event.
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