Morning Insights

By |2024-09-24T18:44:41-07:00September 24th, 2024|Categories: |Tags: , , , , , , , |

A Forum for Entrepreneurs and Innovators Register online! Morning Insights is an idea exchange, designed to help you deepen your knowledge of the regional economy while you strengthen and grow your local network.  Each month's eye-opening presentation gives a jumping off point for your conversations, and ample time is built in for networking. Who should [...]

Morning Insights

By |2024-08-26T10:04:18-07:00August 21st, 2024|Categories: |Tags: , , , , , , , |

A Forum for Entrepreneurs and Innovators Register online! Morning Insights is an idea exchange, designed to help you deepen your knowledge of the regional economy while you strengthen and grow your local network.  Each month's eye-opening presentation gives a jumping off point for your conversations, and ample time is built in for networking. Who should [...]

Morning Insights

By |2024-07-09T21:45:08-07:00July 9th, 2024|Categories: |Tags: , , , , , , |

A Forum for Entrepreneurs and Innovators Register online! Morning Insights is an idea exchange, designed to help you deepen your knowledge of the regional economy while you strengthen and grow your local network.  Each month's eye-opening presentation gives a jumping off point for your conversations, and ample time is built in for networking. Morning Insights [...]

Morning Insights

By |2024-06-18T21:29:49-07:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: |Tags: , , , , , , |

A Forum for Entrepreneurs and Innovators Morning Insights is an idea exchange, designed to help you deepen your knowledge of the regional economy while you strengthen and grow your local network.  Each month's eye-opening presentation gives a jumping off point for your conversations, and ample time is built in for networking. Morning Insights is generously [...]

Practical Applications of AI for Small Business – A Morning Insights Recap

By |2024-05-10T18:35:07-07:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: Innovation, News|Tags: , , , , |

In Palm Springs, a group of entrepreneurs, advisors, and forward-thinkers gathered on May 8 for an event that illuminated the ways humans are interacting with technology. The event, Morning Insights, was an opportunity to share ideas and ask questions centered around the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In an intimate setting with two dozen [...]

New Partnership Benefits Palm Desert Businesses

By |2023-08-08T14:58:51-07:00August 7th, 2023|Categories: Business Development, Economic Development, News|Tags: , , , |

For business owners, or those who dream of starting a business, the Coachella Valley is an ideal place to be. With numerous business-centric organizations and a strong movement among local chambers of commerce and consumers to shop locally, support networks in the Coachella Valley are in many ways stronger than those in other, similarly sized [...]

Small Business Technology transfer in California and the Coachella Valley

By |2022-07-12T21:18:48-07:00July 12th, 2022|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , , , |

Innovation is a key tenet of CVEP’s mission. Here in the US, innovation is rewarded in myriad ways. One example for small businesses and entrepreneurs is America’s Seed Fund. This program awards grants of up to $1M through two specific programs. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants enable small businesses to “explore their technological potential [...]

Small Business Comeback: Get Your Business Online

By |2021-03-02T14:31:37-08:00March 2nd, 2021|Categories: Business Development, News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

A year ago. A presentation on digital marketing from Rich Henrich and Paul Gonzales of Rook SEO (now Rook Digital) was scheduled for the first week of March 2020. Stay-at-home orders hadn't yet been put in place. That event was the first of many that we had to cancel or postpone in 2020. At the [...]

Business Shutdowns Present Perils for Greater Palm Springs

By |2020-10-19T12:55:51-07:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Coronavirus, Economic Development, Jobs, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Economically, the Coachella Valley has been reeling since the cancellation of several of the region’s biggest events in the spring of 2020. At the time, the fear was that the region’s small businesses would experience greatly reduced sales during the busy spring event season, thereby rolling into the slower summer months with less cushion to [...]

CVEP Adds Brand Therapy to Virtual Business Services Offerings

By |2020-07-15T10:18:03-07:00July 14th, 2020|Categories: Business Development, News|Tags: , , , , , |

As firm believers in a tech-led economic development strategy, and as managers of a network of business incubators across the Coachella Valley (the Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Indio iHubs), we serve innovators. Since mid-March, CVEP has made the shift to delivering virtual business services. We know that in order to serve innovators well, we [...]

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