Silicon Valley Economic Development Alliance (SVEDA)

We had two very informative speakers at yesterday's Silicon Valley District CCIM meeting (I know, I'm making another plug for CCIM. I told you I would.)


Kara LaPierre, Vice President, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and Executive Director, SVEDA provided us with a Silicon Valley snapshot and an introduction to SVEDA. (If you missed it, I'm not going to give you a summary of the meeting, other than it was very informative.)


Here's a couple of cool things from the meeting.

Kara gave out copies of the "2008 Silicon Valley Index" (Free is good). The index is produced by Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and Silicon Valley Community and contains a lot of information ranging from the talent flow and diversity of Silicon Valley to what's going on in the environment. You might be able to get a copy by contacting them at info@jointventure.org or info@siliconvalleycf.org.

Here are two interesting websites that Kara gave out that I think you might want to check out.

http://www.siliconvalleyonline.org/ This is the home page of SVEDA and contains lots of information especially on the member cities plus it has a link to Silicon Valley Prospector.

http://www.businessownerspace.com/ This is San Jose/Silicon Valley's site for information on starting and running a small business. (Here's the perfect site to send those clients who think that they want to start their own business.)

I'll talk about Connie Verceles presentation tomorrow.