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Practicing for the
Acronym-pics
GO-Biz or Go Home
Developing the Economy
How does this thing work?
100

Known as Space Beach, this California city is a hub for aerospace companies

Long Beach

100

DVBE

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise

100

This unlucky number is how many regions the California Jobs First plan divides the state into

13

100

This is the rank of California's GDP globally?

What is 4th Largest?

100

Cars that run on fuel cells are powered by this most abundant element in the universe

Hydrogen

200

This industry, centered around Redding and the far north, has long defined the North State's economy

Timber / Forestry

200

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

200

This bright object was the most prominent feature in the original GO-Biz logo

The Sun  

200

California has 4.3 million of these -- all of which are not dominant in their field

Small Businesses

200

These new-age machines use LiDAR to make their way around cities -- all by themselves!

Autonomous Vehicles

300

This "Media Capital of the World" is surprisingly not Hollywood, but a different nearby California city

Burbank

300

FDC

Financial Development Corporations

300

Before Jobs First, this was the name of California's statewide economic program -- something that made folks want to hang loose

Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF)

300

This country is California's top export market, representing nearly 20 percent of the state's total goods exports in 2025

Mexico

300

This metal is often found in underground saltwater brines and is critical for electric batteries

Lithium

400

This is the county where Vandenberg Space Force Base has touched down and called home since 1941

Santa Barbara County

400

NAICS

North American Industry Classification System

400

This is the year GO-Biz was statutorily created -- just prior to the year the world was going to end

What is 2011?

400

This is the largest company in California by market value -- the first company to surpass $5 trillion

Nvidia

400

This component is used in the production of many technologies -- including semiconductors and solar power -- though you may think it was a kind of biscuit!

Wafer

500

This valley is known as the "Salad Bowl of the World" for its rich production of lettuce. It's also where Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas calls home

Salinas Valley

500

 CAEATFA

California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority

500

The name of Director Meyers acclaimed 2008 book -- a title that bears striking resemblance to a Beyonce song released a few years later

Why Women Should Rule the World

500

California hosts more than half of all of these highly valued private startups, that often go by this other, more mythical name

Unicorns

500

This is the basic unit of information in quantum? The equivalent of a classic computing "bit"

Qubit

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