[PDF] Success In The Valley eBook

Author : Martin Kenney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804737340

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This text explores the factors that have made Silicon Valley such a fertile breeding ground for new technologies and new firms. It looks at how its pioneering achievements begana̧nd the forces that have propelled its unprecedented growth.

Author : Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 074322647X

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“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey Is it the job you hate but need in order to pay the rent? Is it that relationship that you gave your all to only to end up with a broken heart...again? Perhaps it's your children, a family member, or a life-long friend doing you in, dragging you down, pushing you to the brink. If you are an honorary member of the Black Woman's Suffering Society, you have probably been told that it's all your fault. Or that struggling and suffering is your lot in life. Iyanla Vanzant says, No! Life is an Act of Faith and suffering is optional! Those everyday challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas are what Iyanla calls "valleys." As bad as they may seem, there is a purpose or, as Iyanla says, "There is so much value in the valley." If you've ever been disappointed, betrayed, rejected, abandoned, or just plain old scared to let go, then you've been or may still be in a valley. Iyanla knows—she's been there and on a bad day she's still there, but now she shares the way out with you.

Author : Apollo Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2021-07-23
Category :
ISBN :

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The "game" is a term commonly used to describe 90s street subculture, which was infatuated with everything ghetto, hip-hop, and gangster, and those who were into it were called "players." Growing up during that time in the San Francisco Bay Area was hard. I was ambitious and smart, but I was no player. As early as age twelve, I found myself immersed in a struggle to survive, with many enemies. After an early brush with death in the drug game, I fought through high school with paranoia and clinically diagnosed PTSD only to fall short of graduation. I spent years deteriorating into depression and anxiety, until I found myself homeless and suicidal at the age of twenty. For some reason I decided to return to school. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia, which caused my life to return to a living nightmare. After three years of dark psychotic struggles, and inspiring educational experiences, I was admitted to UC Berkeley, and I began treatment which enabled me to continue. I graduated Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in computer science, went on to get a master's degree, and work at many of the big Fortune 500 tech companies, including Intel, Apple, Facebook, and Sony PlayStation. Eventually, I earned a PhD from the University of Illinois, a top 5 school in computer science. Today I am Dr. Apollo Ellis, PhD, and the only games I care about are those made with computer graphics technology, a field in which I am regarded as an expert. I'm employed as a senior software engineer, and I earn more than I could've ever imagined as a young kid running from street gangs, trying to sell bags of drugs, and hoping someday to rap as good as Jay-Z. Every day is still a struggle, and many nights come with nightmares, but now these nightmares are where they belong . . . in my dreams.

Author : Chong-Moon Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804740630

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Looks at Silicon Valley's business environment, and what features have made it a fertile ground for start-up companies who develop radical and disruptive technologies.

Author : Deborah Perry Piscione
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113732421X

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While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York. In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and media commentator Deborah Perry Piscione takes us inside this vibrant ecosystem where meritocracy rules the day. She explores Silicon Valley's exceptionally risk-tolerant culture, and why it thrives despite the many laws that make California one of the worst states in the union for business. Drawing on interviews with investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, as well as a host of case studies from Google to Paypal, Piscione argues that Silicon Valley's unique culture is the best hope for the future of American prosperity and the global business community and offers lessons from the Valley to inspire reform in other communities and industries, from Washington, DC to Wall Street.

Author : Rogue Driver
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781720103592

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What are the keys to real success? How do the 1% get to be where they are? What is it that separates them from the remaining 99%? That is a fascinating question, and one for which knowing the answer can help you dramatically change your life. Are you ready to make a change?This fantastic book contains insights and perspectives rarely shared with everyday people in America. Learn the secrets this author collected during his five years as an Uber driver in Silicon Valley. In the back seat of his car rode Entrepreneurs, Investors, Corporate Executives, Venture Capitalists, CEO's, and Billionaires ... many successful professionals from every conceivable occupation. Imagine being able to listen in on the business discussions between these top tier businessmen ... what they discuss, what they think, and what they do! The truly incredible thing is that anyone can apply these principles ... not just the 1%! You just have to know them!In this amazing book the author also includes the contrasting view; a look at the remaining 99%, and the things that they discussed, thought and did. You will understand why this difference so often keeps them trapped in their current situations.This book contains everything you always wondered about success but did not know to ask. Are you willing to take a ride with this author to hear what he learned? If so, get a copy of this book! In it, he shares every amazing secret he learned with you.

Author : Elton B. Sherwin
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780982796115

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In this re-release of his ground-breaking book, venture capitalist Elton Sherwin discloses the decision-making secrets that have made Silicon Valley a success and shows how you can apply those techniques in the 21st century.

Author : Shalini Shankar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822389231

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Desi Land is Shalini Shankar’s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or “Desis,” define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months “kickin’ it” with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and other locations; they include first- to fourth-generation immigrants whose parents’ careers vary from assembly-line workers to engineers and CEOs. By analyzing how Desi teens’ conceptions and realizations of success are influenced by community values, cultural practices, language use, and material culture, she offers a nuanced portrait of diasporic formations in a transforming urban region. Whether discussing instant messaging or arranged marriages, Desi bling or the pressures of the model minority myth, Shankar foregrounds the teens’ voices, perspectives, and stories. She investigates how Desi teens interact with dialogue and songs from Bollywood films as well as how they use their heritage language in ways that inform local meanings of ethnicity while they also connect to a broader South Asian diasporic consciousness. She analyzes how teens negotiate rules about dating and reconcile them with their longer-term desire to become adult members of their communities. In Desi Land Shankar not only shows how Desi teens of different socioeconomic backgrounds are differently able to succeed in Silicon Valley schools and economies but also how such variance affects meanings of race, class, and community for South Asian Americans.

Author : Ashlee Vance
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762751916

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Silicon Valley veterans and newbies alike will want to explore this book that delves into the rich history behind the region that birthed the world's most important industry. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance has captured almost every aspect of the area stretching between San Francisco and San Jose, California, starting with the eager radio and electronics enthusiasts of the early 1900s and ending with the computing powerhouses of today such as Google and Apple. Along the way, the book profiles the people and places that have elevated Silicon Valley to an almost mythic pedestal. This book delivers Silicon Valley, taking us from success story to failed startup and back again as we drive the roads from San Francisco to Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose. It's full of profiles of the larger-than-life characters that pioneered the processor, computer, and Internet revolutions. The book's vibrant design includes "Silicon Valley Soundbytes" packed with insider information and trivia, and "Click Here" sidebars, which suggest places to eat, drink, and shop. Place by place, readers get the inside scoop on all the addresses that count, which include Microsoft research centers; the headquarters of Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle; research powerhouses such as Stanford University, NASA Ames, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Computer History Museum and The Tech Museum; the Shoreline Amphitheater; the Churchill Club; and many more.