As more California small businesses reopen around the state – focused on the safety of their employees and customers – we want to take a closer look… what’s working, what isn’t?

To do this, we’re embarking on a virtual road trip. Isabel Guzman, the Director of our Office of the Small Business Advocate and State Government Lead of California’s Entrepreneurship Task Force, and I will "Zoom" our way around the state, speaking with small business owners and business support centers. But before we hit the virtual roadways it’s important to remember, as Governor Newsom says, we are many parts but one body and that means county variations, regional differences all within one California. As we reopen it’s important we do so with inclusion in mind, that regions affect one another and recover together.

We hope you’ll join us as we travel across the state, learning from California’s indomitable small business owners, the core of our state’s innovative economy, as they adapt and pivot to this new marketplace.