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“Basic Economic Development Issues for High Tech Startups in Calaveras County” John MacWillie To Address CCEDC Meeting December 11
San Andreas, CA....The CCEDC has a guest speaker at the Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 2:00pm meeting of the Calaveras County Economic Development Company, (CCEDC). The meeting will be in the classrooms of Mark Twain Medical Center. The speaker is John MacWillie. He lived in Calaveras County during his youth, graduating from Calaveras High School. He has recently moved back to the county. He has been an executive in the software industry for thirty years and is leading a web-based technology startup currently out raising venture capital funding. The company is looking at placing many of its operations to Calaveras County. The title of Johns talk is: “Basic Economic Development Issues for High Tech Startups in Calaveras County” ...
The three basic issues are:
1. Communications Infrastructure Requirements
2. Qualified Labor Supply
3. Building a Culture of Innovation
If time and group interest allow these ancillary topics will be addressed: the role of local entrepreneurs, availability of capital, and quality of local education.
MacWillie is a well-known executive in the software industry and has held many leadership positions in his career. These include Symantec, where he was director of strategic business development, Cognet Corporation where he was vice president of business development, Telemetrics where he was vice president and chief technology officer, as well as the market research firm Gartner Group where he served as vice president and practice leader for consulting services. MacWillie holds a BA in European History from the University of California at Berkeley and did his graduate studies in Economics and Urban Planning at New York University.
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