When I created the sponsored story, Facebook showed me my target market: a grand total of 920 people. Makes sense, most of the people who “like” the Startup Conference are in Silicon Valley. The high value marketing spending is leaving Google and moving to Facebook. Silicon Valley MORE >>

But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? Tech Market AnalysisThe concise guide is here. hours of TV per day. Right? MORE >>

Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities joins the two other “must reads,” ( Regional Advantage and Startup Nation ) and one “must view” ( The Secret History of Silicon Valley ) for anyone trying to understand the components of a regional cluster. TechStars selection criteria is to first focus on picking the right team then the market. MORE >>

I get asked all the time how other areas can replicate whatever it is that makes Silicon Valley special. But the really long  answer is that one of Silicon Valley's less understood secrets -- from an investing standpoint -- is how much of it is tied to a simple idea. . What is that idea? Stanford? Smart engineers? 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 >>