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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Artificial Intelligence And Global Ethics

YoungUpstarts

This technology is being tested now, as I experienced a few months ago while driving north on Highway 101 from Los Angeles to San Jose. Geo-engineering: These solutions will be able to manipulate large-scale, global environmental processes that affect the entire earth’s climate. million truckers over the next decade.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere.

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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Talented Entrepreneurs

Professor VC

With a lot of uncertainty regarding immigration policy in the days ahead, we are really excited to be launching a Global Entrepreneur in Residence program at San Jose State, where immigrant entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to build their companies on campus. San Jose State is the first in California.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Silicon Valley is an innovation cluster that makes hardware, software, biotech and semiconductors. Silicon Valley.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.