century, the region of Northern California we call Silicon Valley, was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. At that time it was better known for its apricots and walnuts than for its cutting-edge technology. The first time the term Silicon Valley was used, was in 1971 when a journalist wrote a couple of articles in Electronic News, a weekly electronic industry tabloid, about the semiconductor-industry around Palo Alto, California. Silicon Valley has since then transformed into a region filled with
Where is Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is the name given to the region south of the San Fransisco Bay Area that is located in Northern California. It is an area in the larger U.S state of California and stands as a hub of economic activity with the headquarters of most of the global tech companies calling it home. Silicon Valley extends to cover the whole of Santa Clara Valley covering the lower part of the San Francisco Peninsula and the southern region of the East Bay. With that, Santa Clara
Silicon Valley is a space in Northern California, which is a main center for numerous web-based corporations, high-tech manufacturing, and innovators. It is a high expense area to live in therefore is one of the most expensive areas in the United States. The ethnographic subject is a woman who is a computer engineer uses the space to commute and works in the technology industry. In a positive outlook she is creating new space for women by encouraging other women to join this particular site just
Heidi Roizen, a native of Silicon Valley and naturally gifted entrepreneur in the technology ecosystem. A sneak peek into her linked network profile says “I love working with entrepreneurs and executives to build great companies”. She has brilliantly managed building a strong network around herself during her course of life while concentrating on venture capitalism at the same time. She is outgoing, forward thinker and she can foresee opportunities that others miss. She faced a tough time working
Brief History of the Valley The Silicon Valley area became a major manufacturing power after World War II. The Cold War furthered this development, as industries involved in defense, aerospace, steel, oil, automobiles, and so on prospered (Hossfeld 405-406). The high-technology industry began in the laboratories of corporations such as Bell Laboratories, American Telephone and Telegraph, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, and General Electric during this Cold War era (Bacon, “Organizing”)
A Comparison of the Silicon Valley and Berlin Startup Scene It’s 12 a.m. in Berlin and the historic cobblestone boulevards seem swathed in a vibrant atmosphere of drug-fuelled restlessness and drunken euphoria. The thick aroma of cigarette smoke and sweat lingers in the balmy summer air as dazed Berliners saunter side by side, their raucous voices drowned out by the steady bass beat of nearby discotheques. For more than a decade Berlin has been synonymous with the idea of a city that never sleeps
1). No other industry in the world has such a skewed uniformity such as the tech world, and no television show captures this uniformity like Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is based on the Northern California region with the same name which is considered the mecca of the tech world home to large companies such as Apple and Google. Unfortunately Silicon Valley contains many negative stereotypes about women. The first harmful stereotype in the show is the portrayal of women as only love interests for
very broadly, Silicon Valley's take on deregulation, or: heterarchy over hierarchy. Distributed networks that auto-match people for commerce/socializing is better than hierarchy that uses command+control to influence/restrict decisions. As I wrote this, I wanted to add a counterexample, exception to a rule, or other clarification many times over. This email is me portraying what I think is the prevailing, semi-unexamined wisdom of Silicon Valley. ---------- Most of Silicon Valley wants deregulation
Silicon Valley has always been a place of constant economic change. Huge booms and then sudden busts are not only common, but they’re almost predictable. It’s becoming easier to observe and evaluate past crashes and use this knowledge to predict future busts in the valley. The huge jump in the number of tech startups recently has been attracting an increasing amount of attention from investors who are looking for make it big. Due to this as well as other factors, these companies are becoming overvalued
The Valley of Opportunity What is the American Dream? Usually, for most people the American Dream is working hard enough to be able to live prosperously. But has the meaning of the American Dream changed, so that in order to achieve it one must become wealthy and gain success. The type of people that are most often identified, as having achieved the American Dream are entrepreneurs who create successful and innovative companies, not the everyday middle class man. The stories of these successful