The Project for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, based at 605 Front Street is a collaboration between the City of Santa Cruz and UCSC designed to support a culture of entrepreneurship by placing select student interns into high tech and green tech startups to work on specific projects.

To reinforce the lessons learned on the job, the program also features a weekly speakers series on Fridays in the Front Street office featuring C-level executives and founders speaking on topics like scaling & exit strategies, resource & software development, funding, financing, community building and strategy.

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The PIE Speaker series brings in local companies, executives, non-profits and entreprenuers to talk about their experience in starting and scaling a business or about their particular area of expertise. Each week has a different topic that benefit students from a wide range of interests. Past topics have included IP law and Tech Transfer, raising money for nonprofits and running a retail business.

The speaker series occurs every Friday at 9:30 am during the school term at the PIE at 605 Front Street.

Some of the Benefits for Students

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