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Silicon
Valley Habitat: building bridges between Silicon Valley and the
rest of the world.
Silicon
Valley is the world’s paradigm as specialized habitat for create
high tech companies. Thousands of people come here every year to learn the secrets of its
success.
C.
Lee, from Stanford University, have recently written that
<<like a natural habitat for flora and fauna, the habitat of
Silicon Valley is one in which all the resources high-tech
entrepreneurial firms need to survive have grown organically over
time. Silicon Valley’s habitat includes people, firms and
institutions –their networks and modes of interaction. And like
a natural habitat, it is marked by complex, dynamic,
interdependent relationships>>.
Unfortunately,
Silicon Valley is still deeply unknown for most business,
entrepreneurs and institutions all around the world. The mission
of this project is to help them to know it better and to build
bridges to reach
its main agents (read more about the
project).
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Startup
System: 10 years Promoting Entrepreneurship.After
ten
years promoting Entrepreneurship internationally, the team of
Startup System starts working in Silicon Valley. Cutting-Edge
Teaching, Coaching, Consulting, Executive Management and Seed
Capital Investing to support the entrepreneurs and the
entrepreneurial projects
(read more).
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Startup
Team: Community of Entrepreneurs
in
Silicon Valley.
There are a
lot of Entrepreneurs' Networks, specially in Silicon Valley.
Usually, in these networks you find fast meetings, fast
presentations, fast business cards sharing. These networks play a
very important role, but for some people they do not solve
important necessities that the STARTUP COMMUNITY will try to fill.
STARTUP TEAM
is not a network, but a community. This idea comes from the
Artists' Communities, organizations where artists and people
interested in promote one particular artistic style join efforts
to get mutual support, inspiration and collaboration. STARTUP TEAM
do not try to be a contacts list or a business plan competition
forum, but a non-stressful organization of people who shares the
same entrepreneurial philosophy and the believe in the importance
of mutual support and inspiration
(read more).
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Puente
a Silicon Valley: The Bridge between Silicon Valley and the
Spanish-Speaking Economies.
Puente
a Silicon Valley starts its activities offering a wide range of
services to promote the relationships between Silicon Valley and
the companies and professionals of Spain and Latin America. There
is a huge number of number of oportunities that this bridge can
open to the companies, professionals and institutions inside and
outside Silicon Valley
(read more).
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Web
2.0 Expo: Internet is just a baby.Tim
O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., and top
responsible of the Web 2.0 Expo of San Francisco, tells that
<<the bursting of the
dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the
web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in
fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common
feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark
the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its
place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush,
the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to
be an understanding of what separates one from the other.
The
concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference
brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive
International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted
that far from having "crashed", the web was more
important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites
popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies
that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in
common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of
turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as
"Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and
so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.
In
the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has
clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in
Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just
what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless
marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new
conventional wisdom>>
(read all the article).
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Kevin
Holmes: Santa Clara University has the chance
to be the best University of the World for Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs.
The
Santa Clara University is located just in the core of Silicon
Valley. The 8,000-student, Catholic, Jesuit University has a
155-year tradition of educating the whole person for a life of
service and leadership.
This
diverse community of scholars, characterized by small classes and
a values-oriented curriculum, is dedicated to educating students
for competence, conscience, and compassion. Kevin Holmes, Director
of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, knows that SCU
is in the best position to become the #1 University of the World
for Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs.
<<We
think that because our location and because our focus in Hi-Tech
Entrepreneurship, we can be a leading University in
Entrepreneurship Education>>, says Holmes.
(read
all the interview).
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Bob
Goedjen: SCORE
Silicon Valley, the
most experienced coaches an Entrepreneur can find.
SCORE
"Counselors to America's Small Business" is a
nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the
formation, growth and success of small business nationwide.
Founded
in 1964, SCORE has 389 chapters throughout the United States and
its territories, with 10,500 volunteers nationwide. Both working
and retired executives and business owners donate time and
expertise as business counselors.
The
SCORE Chapter of Silicon Valley is probably one of the most
special Chapters of the organization. Bob Goedjen is the Marketing
Chair, a real privilege for the Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurs
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<<Our difference is that a
large number of our members are out of the technical field,
Hi-Tech. That changes the dynamics a little bit if you compare us
with other SCORE Chapters. Many of us came out to startups, so we
know that environment>>, says Goedjen
(read
all the interview).
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Chris
Gill: Silicon Valley is a state of mind.Chris
Gill is the President and CEO of the
Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE). A
serial entrepreneur, he has founded 8
companies with 6 achieving successful liquidity events. Author of
the book "Learning from Silicon Valley Legends", after
30 years in the Valley he has become a Legend himself for
thousands of entrepreneurs around the world.
<<The
real key is the attitude. Silicon Valley is a state of mind, it is
not a place. That state of mind says that it is okay not only to
try, it is okay to fail. Because failing is part of the learning
process>>, says Gill.
<<We
see in SVASE that it typically takes 3 or 4 attempts for somebody
to actually get a successful company up and running>>.
<<In
other areas like Europe or South Asia people look down on the
entrepreneurs who fail, and that is a significant factor that
prevents people from trying. Think about it. How are you going to
learn how to ride a bicycle? You
can read all the books you want, but you will not learn until you
have practical experience by trying it for yourself.
And almost certainly you will fall off a few times, until
you get the hang of it. That’s
standard. No-one
expects you to be able do it the first time.
It’s no different for starting a company, and many other
things in life>>
(read
all the interview).
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It's
about talent: the IT world's leaders are all here.
Silicon
Valley’s habitat specializes in breeding high tech companies.
Until now, there have been four strong waves of innovation in the
region: electronic, integrated circuits (semiconductors), personal
computers and Internet.
Silicon
Valley is now a very special cluster of IT firms, where are most
of the world leaders of the main IT fields: integrated circuits
(Intel, AMD, National Semiconductors), personal computers (Apple),
workstations (Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems), 3D graphics
(Silicon Graphics), database software (Oracle), network computing
(Cisco, 3Com) and Internet (Google, Yahoo!, Ebay).
The
actual firms are in many senses inheritors of legendary Silicon
Valley companies, among it must be remarked the case of Fairchild
Semiconductor Corporation (read more).
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Mark
Godwin: insert the Silicon Valley system in your company.
There
are few cases of success like TEN in Silicon Valley. Over 90
startups have graduated from this Innovation Center in the last 15
years. Among them, outstanding successes like eBay, iPrint, Xros,
Vertical Networks, Right Works, Intruvert Networks, Tukaroo or
Sensant. $80 billion in market cap and thousands of jobs have been
created by their companies. 27 of their graduates have exited
through IPO or M&A.
Big
Corporations, Governments and Universities worldwide can now have
access to the most successful system of innovation and growth in
the world. Access Growth is the brain of TEN and applies its
formula all over the world.
Mark
Godwin is the visionary CEO of TEN (The Enterprise Network of
Silicon Valley) and ACCESS GROWTH. Born and raised in Silicon
Valley, a highly successful entrepreneur and consultant, with the goal of
his life to change the world by spreading the innovation system
of Silicon Valley (read all the interview).
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Stanford
University: the main factory of the Silicon Valley's best assets.
Stanford
University is recognized as one of the world's leading research
and teaching institutions. Stanford's
current community of scholars includes 16 Nobel laureates, four
Pulitzer Prize winners and 24 MacArthur Fellows. Stanford is
particularly noted for its openness to interdisciplinary research,
not only within its schools
and departments,
but also in its laboratories, institutes and research
centers.
Among
the famous Stanford Alumni, you can find
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft; Eric Benhamou, Chairman, 3Com;
Doris Fisher, co-founder, Gap, Inc.; Joseph Gallo, CEO, E&J
Gallo Winery; William Hewlett and David Packard (both deceased),
founders, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Philip Knight, Chairman and CEO,
Nike, Inc.; Bill and Mel Lane, formerly of Sunset Publishing
Corp.; Peter Magowan, President, San Francisco Giants; Scott
McNealy, Chairman, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Robert Mondavi,
founder, Mondavi Wines; Charles Schwab, CEO and Chairman, Charles
Schwab Corp.; Greg Steltenpohl, co-founder, Odwalla; Jerry Yang
and David Filo, founders, Yahoo!; Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page,
founders of Google; Reed Hastings, Chairman and CEO of
Netflix; and John Morgridge, Chairman of Cisco (read
more).
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