The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.  How did Silicon Valley start? The first electronics company in Silicon Valley was Federal Telegraph , a tube company started in 1909 in Palo Alto as Poulsen Wireless.  Why now? MORE >>

The reason is that Objectivism and the Silicon Valley ethos have a lot in common. The Valley’s ideal is a productive  maker  who is driven by a creative vision, something he passionately believes in and wants to make real. This think it’s what resonates with others in the startup community, too MORE >>

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world.  The Valley is world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing companies and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.  MORE >>

Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder. MORE >>

These are Silicon Valley's clich darlings. In the mid-'90s, Kamran Elahian, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, famously engraved his Ferrari F355's license plate with Momenta, the name of a company he founded in 1989. Failure, it seems, is the buzzword of the moment in Silicon Valley. "Embrace failure." MORE >>