Entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyAssimilating In America – A View From Silicon Valley
It starts happening when going to cocktail-parties gets easier. It is when the guards go down and the conversations just flow.
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Economy And BusinessAn Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
We should be worried about the 2020 elections. No one other than you, Mark, understand the problem the best, so help us fix it!
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Economy And BusinessMusk Is Firing on All Cylinders — Even Though Tesla Has None!
Silicon Valley is filled with pioneers but Elon Musk — the main force driving four companies with advanced technologies — is the only one hitting on all cylinders. Musk has Tesla Motors with its hi-tech...
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyArtificial Intelligence – The Trade Secret Of New Era Companies
Technology has unleashed Artificial Intelligence (AI) on us. Early adoption of AI by the big four — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — has propelled them to unprecedented market dominance. Data science and AI has...
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyTo Retain Risk Taking Well Into Adulthood — Adopt A Teenager Mindset
Risk aversion starts setting in after we turn forty and beyond. Conversing over dinner with a fellow board member, Mike, we both surprised each other when we agreed that as we grow older we need to...
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Economy And BusinessMake New Graduates And Startups A Win!
As college seniors begin signing up for job interviews, ‘startups vs not’ might be their first dilemma. Working for a startup takes guts and is a journey that gets interesting and rewarding if they share the vision of its founder/CEO. Read More
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyFor Silicon Valley Indians – Neha Rastogi Has Initiated A Social Transformation
On June 15, in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Palo Alto, Judge Allison Marston is expected to deliver the verdict in the criminal proceedings of Neha Rastogi. For 10 long years, Neha, an Indian high-tech professional married to a startup CEO, was allegedly a victim of violence at the hands of her husband. The story has pained Silicon Valley Indian tech community and the recording she taped on her iPhone has jarred our ears. In Neha’s letter read to the court she describes the years of torture, and in the recording she begs her husband to stop hitting her. The topic of conversation is ‘software bug’! This struck us hard as she is not just anybody. She is one of us. We relate to her. Our regret is how could she suffer for 10 years and not reach out to any member of the closely knit Indian American community? Read More
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyWhy Silicon Valley Must Get Engaged In Legislative Process And Vote
Last November’s presidential election results were a wakeup call for Silicon Valley. For the first time we, the Siliconeers, felt disenfranchised and irrelevant even though California is the most populous state, has created most jobs by far, and has primed the pump of innovation over past four decades. “Others” voted in a president who does not represent our vision of what defines the America of the future. Read More
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyHow I “STEAMed” Ahead In Silicon Valley
Start-ups of Silicon Valley have been the engine of new economy for the past 50 years. Technical innovations have made computers, the Internet and cell phones possible and affordable. Behind every start-up is an idea and backing every idea is entrepreneur’s belief. Read More
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon ValleyWhy B-School Education Is A Misfit For Silicon Valley
How MBA education helps prime the entrepreneurial economic-engine, is unclear to Siliconiers. I am an engineer by education and was the co-founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley company for almost 20 years. During my...
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