San Francisco, CA - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
United Way of the Bay Area Girls Justice Initiative
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Largest Industries
Tourism is the backbone of the San Francisco economy. San Francisco attracts the third highest number of foreign tourists of any city in the United States. With a large hotel and restaurant infrastructure and a world-class facility in the Moscone Center, San Francisco also is a top-ten North American destination for conventions and conferences.
The legacy of the California Gold Rush turned San Francisco into the principal banking and finance center of the west coast in the early twentieth century. Many large financial institutions, multinational banks and venture capital firms are based in or have set up regional headquarters in the city which boasts of over thirty international financial institutions,six Fortune 500 companies and a large support infrastructure of professional services, including law, public relations, architecture, and graphic design.
San Francisco's economy has increasingly become tied to that of Silicon Valley to the south, sharing a need for highly educated workers with specialized skills. It has been positioning itself as a biotechnology and biomedical hub and research center. More than 2,800 Bay Area companies produce computers, semiconductors and related components, scientific instruments, and various other electronic systems and equipment.
Newspapers
Traditional
San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Examiner
Alternatives
San Francisco Bay Guardian | S.F. Weekly | San Francisco Times
Magazines
City Guides
City of San Francisco | City Search-Bay Area | Digital City-San Francisco
TV
KGO (ABC) | KPIX (CBS) | KRON (NBC) | KQED (PBS) | KBWB (WB) | KBHK (UPN)
Radio
KCBS (CBS) | KGO (ABC) | KSFO | KALW | KNBR | KQED (PBS)
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
Leisure
