2. SILICON VALLEY IS A NICKNAME FOR THE SOUTH
BAY PORTION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
3. 1) An entrepreneurial state of mind.
2) Miles of roads and too much traffic.
3) The highest concentration of entrepreneurial high-tech companies
in the world.
4) ETC …
WHAT IS SILICON VALLEY …
4. A Guide to Silicon
Valley
Palo Alto
„The Capital“
Stanford Uni.
„The brains“
Sand Hill Rd
Money lives here
SFO
The gates
S.F.
Restaurants, gigs,
gays, liberals and the
hippiest startups
No evil here. Seriously
The Zuck Country
S.J.
Please wake me up
when I’m finished
After $100m exit you
will live here
Apples here
7. 7
THE (REEAL) HISTORY OF THE VALLEY
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
WAVESOF
INNOVATION
INTERNET
PERSONAL
COMPUTERS
INTEGRATED
CIRCUITS
DEFENSE
Today:
25 of Fortune 100
Adobe Systems
AMD
Agilent Technologies
Apple Inc.
Applied Materials
Business Objects
Cisco Systems
eBay
Electronic Arts
Google
Hewlett-Packard
Intel
Intuit
LSI Logic
Maxtor
National
Semiconductor
Network Appliance
Nvidia
Oracle Corporation
SanDisk
Seagate Technology
Solectron
Symantec
Sun Microsystems
Yahoo!
…
◊ NASA
◊ Lockheed
◊ HP (47)
◊ Intel (68)
◊ Kleiner Perkins (72)
◊ Apple (80)
◊ 3Com, Adobe, Cisco
◊ Yahoo, ebay,
Google (90s)
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