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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship. This last point is illustrated by the chart below.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. A bit like Silicon Valley. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

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