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Hyperbolic Headlines About Silicon Valley

Feld Thoughts

The hyperbolic headlines are once again accompanying the articles about Silicon Valley. A Sunday NY Times article titled Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley kicks off what I expect is another wave of this. Kind of entertaining that Netscape led us to Monroe, Louisiana. I’ll wait.

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Top Five US Cities With Pleasant Environments To Live And Work In

YoungUpstarts

The new and improved “Capital of the Silicon Valley” is definitely living up to its name. New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition to sunny weather, homeowners in San Jose can enjoy breathtaking views of the mountains on three sides of the coast as well as 15,950 acres of parkland amidst swaying palm trees.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Mr. Willink would later bank roll the Louisiana Purchase - in someway a ‘super angel’ of the 18th century. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. It was the first foreign loan in US history. But forget the quaint history facts. We need a center of gravitas.

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Live From the Startup Bus – Round 1: My Twili-O Face (I Choked) (Post #4)

Up and Running

I even practiced pitching to a complete stranger, while taking a leak in a truck stop bathroom in a town called Iowa, Louisiana. Yep – it turns out she won this competition last year, and is the Silicon Valley bus conductor this time around. I was ready to rock this pitch. I had it perfected.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes? Yes, I passed up all that.

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“We are one of just 13 industrialized countries with a rising maternal mortality rate” – Christy Turlington Burns on Fighting for Healthy Mothers

Hunter Walker

The first three short films highlighted three states (New York, Florida, and Montana) and we will be releasing our 4 th installment profiling Louisiana on CNN.com in November. Did you feel connected to Silicon Valley back then? I grew up in the East Bay but left for NYC in 1987 and Silicon Valley was just starting to percolate.