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The Wisdom of Silicon Valley
This is, very broadly, Silicon Valley's take on deregulation, or: heterarchy over hierarchy. Distributed networks that auto
–match people for commerce
/socializing is better than hierarchy that uses command+control to influence/restrict decisions. As I wrote this, I wanted to add a counterexample,
exception to a rule, or other clarification many times over. This email is me portraying what I think is the prevailing, semi–unexamined wisdom of
Silicon Valley.
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Most of Silicon Valley wants deregulation because they have seen regulation fail and deregulation succeed. Wall Street is heavily regulated and heavily
subsidized. Wall Street is notcapitalism to them. Wall Street is crony capitalism: When shit goes bad, you get government money. When shit goes
well, you get all the money! You spend all your money to rig the rules so you get more money, which you use to rig the rules, etc.
Silicon Valley redeems capitalism from Wall Street. If you succeed, you succeed and keep the money (mostly). If you fail, the company goes under.
You can try again, but you don't get bailed out. Crucially, there is a healthy ecosystem, nobody gets too large and nobody is too small, at least within
SV; There are marginalized people just down the street in the mission that aren't "in" silicon valley.
Nobody gets too large because then they can't innovate and start to fail: Sun, Digital, HP, AOL, etc. are all companies that got huge and then either got
massively devalued or closed. The only
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Philanthropy And Social Crisis
Silicon Valley's $300M gift to STEM instruction isn't what it appears Numerous teachers cheered the news, reported not long ago, that a consortium of
tech firms had swore an aggregate $300 million towards bettering STEM training in the United States. A New York Times article on their gift talked
about it in sparkling terms – an exchange amass official depicted its capability to propel "opportunity," while Ivanka Trump called STEM abilities
"foundational." The positive press about an altruistic blessing is presumably not very astonishing. The greater part of us have a gut response to
"philanthropy." It infers altruism, and a magnanimous soul. As a result of this social comprehension of magnanimous giving as "unadulterated," giving
is by...show more content...
We lose the aggregate estimation of equitable control, of living in a world in which every one of us–not simply corporate benefactors and the
establishments they subsidize – have a say with respect to how training capacity and how society works. In any case, maybe you are an anti–extremist
or a preservationist who does not disagree with the counter popularity based saying that we should leave rich technocrats to oil the riggings of advance.
Regardless of the possibility that you imagine that the rich merit the influence that accompanies their riches – and that whatever is left of us poors
ought to have nothing to do with how our lives go – this STEM instruction blessing should in any case alert you. That is on the grounds that these tech
organizations don't generally think about your youngsters, or their instruction. They simply need to pay bring down wages to future specialists. Since
there is a progressing deficiency of STEM abilities, those callings' wages are similarly very high. Glassdoor, an occupation and selecting site that
tracks compensation for various callings, pegs the normal pay for a Bay Area programming designer to be over $124,000. The nearly high pay rates of
center administration tech laborers has powered the wage imbalance of the Bay Area and driven gentrification, both here and in different urban areas
with huge tech segments like New York. And keeping in mind that the tech organizations frequently appear to be
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Development of Silicon Valley
Introduction
Until the middle of the century, the region of Northern California we call Silicon Valley, was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. At that time it
was better known for its apricots and walnuts than for its cutting–edge technology. The first time the term Silicon Valley was used, was in 1971 when a
journalist wrote a couple of articles in Electronic News, a weekly electronic industry tabloid, about the semiconductor–industry around Palo Alto,
California. Silicon Valleyhas since then transformed into a region filled with high–tech industry leaders who are constantly developing the most cutting
edge technology. The world we live in now is filled with electronics, computers, and high–speed internet communication, and this...show more content...
The Stanford Research Institute was a "West Coast center of innovation to support economic development in the region"(Gromov). The great
innovations in electronics eventually led to the invention of the world's first digital computer in 1953. In 1955 Stanford graduate student Dr. William
Shockley founded a company called Shockley Transistor. He had developed a transistor based on the principle of amplifying an electrical current using
a solid semi–conducting material, which was a suitable alternative for the devices used up to then. The concept was based on the fact that it is possible
to selectively control the flow of electricity through silicon. The resultant discoveries combined to form the basic concept behind the compact electrical
"transfer resistor", the transistor, that was to power the coming High Tech Revolution.
The High Tech Revolution
The High Tech Revolution began when companies were able to use the micro–sized transistors made exclusively in silicon when integrating large
numbers of integrated circuits, which are an essential part of electronics. With the help of these transistors, the companies using them were able to
rapidly join the California electronics industry. Companies such as Intel, Signetics (now Philips Semiconductors), National Semiconductors and AMD,
were among the first in Silicon Valley to use this new technology. They became the core of the semiconductor
–industry in Silicon Valley.
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Silicon Valley Stereotypes
Zero–point four percent of women in colleges and universities are majoring in Computer science.(Khazan 1). No other industry in the world has such
a skewed uniformity such as the tech world, and no television show captures this uniformity like Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is based on the
Northern California region with the same name which is considered the mecca of the tech world home to large companies such as Apple and Google.
Unfortunately Silicon Valley contains many negative stereotypes about women. The first harmful stereotype in the show is the portrayal of women as
only love interests for the male characters. The second negative stereotype is that women do not make good leaders. Finally, in the show women are
portrayed as being bad...show more content...
This skewed representation has raised many alarms in outside circles on why the tech industry deals with such uniformity. In the show Silicon Valley
this stereotype of women not being leaders is subtly perpetuated throughout the series. In episode one we are introduced to two companies that are
competing against each other. The first company is Hooli incorporated which has a male CEO, looking closely in the boardroom the onlygender
represented is male, however the only females present in the office are the female secretaries. The same uniformity is present in the competing firm,
male CEO, male president, male board members, and female secretary. Throughout the entire first season not one woman holds a position in leadership,
and when we are introduced to a female character she usually holds a position working as an assistant to one of the male characters. Silicon Valley
deals with the issue of not injecting women into higher power position, unfortunately many of these stereotypes are found in many industries around
the world. The portrayal of women as being incapable of being good leaders leads to a male dominated managerial system. A study conducted by the
Wall Street Journal finds that "Only ten percent of directors at Silicon Valley are women." (Wells 2) this glass ceiling keeps women from reaching
position that they are fully qualified for, just because they are perceived to be ineffective
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Ethics issue in "Pirates of Silicon Valley"
Business Ethics
Ethics Issues in "Pirates of Silicon Valley"
The film, "Pirates of Silicon Valley," is a review of the building of both Apple Computer and Microsoft as told through the lens of people that
worked with both Steve Jobs at Apple and Bill Gates at Microsoft. The film addresses both the inner working of the two companies and the ethical
issues that arise from their leaders, Jobs and Gates, desire to be the most important person in their chosen industry. While the film primarily focuses
on Jobs and Gates, the workings of their respective companies and their rivalry play an integral role. Due to the fact that the film was produced in
1999, many issues have arisen in both companies in the years since that have changed...show more content...
While Gates makes a statement to this effect in the film, the United States actually sued Microsoft for Monopoly practices two years after this film was
released, and much of the system (Windows) that Gates produced was based on information obtained from Apple, thus creating the odd dichotomy
which proceeded between Microsoft and Apple in the years since this film was produced.
The largest ethical issue presented in the film deals with the fact that both Apple and Microsoft used unethical behavior to gain information from other
companies which the then used to further their agendas. In the case of Apple, the used information obtained from Xerox to help create their graphic
interface on their LISA system, while Microsoft used information from the LISA system to help create Windows. While Jobs was decidedly anti IBM,
Gates used IBM to further his software business. While both Jobs and Gates lead the computer revolution, I venture that it can be agreed that both took
steps along the way which would be seen as less than ethical.
As I watched this film on my Windows based laptop using my Google account, and then typed this paper Microsoft Office 2010, it became more
painfully obvious that both Apple and Microsoft own large portions of our lives. Almost everyone own a product made by one if not both companies.
Does this mean that the unethical
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The Silicon Success Formula: Bunching–up Firms and the Involvement of Universities in a Global Market
Introduction
The spatial clustering of public universities and top technology firms in Silicon Valley raises a lot of interesting questions as to the local economic
development within that region. The massive agglomeration economies and positive externalities from public institutions to private business has aid
rapid expansion of Silicon Valley for the past 50 years. Technology is constantly growing in the new millennia, as people use smartphones to manage
bank accounts or data is managed and secured by the cloud. Silicon Valley is a huge pioneer for emerging tech firms, as these businesses utilize the
talents of graduating students...show more content...
A universal underlying theme of the sources indicate that firms that agglomerate are most likely to rely on academic talent to develop their businesses
to expansionary heights. In this literature review, we will discuss other components of the Silicon Valley success formula, partnership and business
links to universities, and agglomeration economies present between clustering of firms within this region.
Human Capital Externalities, Agglomeration Economies, and Non–Compete Agreements
First, we will begin discussing the economics of clustering and tie it into non–compete agreements between firms in Silicon Valley. We rely heavily
upon Acemoglu's (1997) analysis of innovation in a labor market with inefficient job search. Acemoglu's model establishes a number of important
results regarding knowledge spillovers (Acemoglu 1997). It also offers a parsimonious framework for understanding how modular design and "job
hopping" can produce external economies of scale in a computer cluster. For the innovation process described to be a source of agglomeration
economies, it needs somehow to be localized (Rotemberg & Saloner
2000). Agglomeration patterns and externalities are an important element of the regional innovation system context. Specialized firms dominate the
region, making way for knowledge to spill over vertically within the value
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MAS10B: Course Review MAS 10B (also known as Mexican–American 10B) is a course that helps students' become exposed to a different
perspective by using a historical, cultural, and political approach within readings, discussions, and group work regarding about the ongoing Mexican
struggle and how it affects us. The course examines this in a chronological order of the Mexican struggle with the capitalist in 1848 to the May Day
2006 marches. Overall, the course presented through a different perspective and provided us with tools to analyze each event, whether it would be the
strike of the local–890 mill to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that all these events are linked to the present day and the impacts it has had for Mexicans.
The course curriculum...show more content...
However, Pitti's examines the Chicano civil rights movement, seeking its strengths and weaknesses, to is an important step in the developing
historiography of the broader civil rights movement, seeking to place it in a historical aspect and broadening the field of vision beyond the more
radical, attention–seizing groups while accepting their donations to the maneuver for justice within the Mexican–American communities. Which this
can be tied to the concept of cultural citizenship (refers to the right to be different and to belong in a participatory democratic sense. Over time, the
word has been used in relation to the Mexican–American struggle and how they have been depraved of their original culture and have instead tried to
"Americanize"
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Where Is Silicon Valley?
Where is Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley is the name given to the region south of the San Fransisco Bay Area that is located in Northern California. It is an area in the larger
U.S state of California and stands as a hub of economic activity with the headquarters of most of the global tech companies calling it home. Silicon
Valleyextends to cover the whole of Santa Clara Valley covering the lower part of the San Francisco Peninsula and the southern region of the East Bay.
With that, Santa Clara County, Alameda County and San Mateo County are all considered as wholesomely making up what is known as Silicon
Valley. In terms of economic pathways, San Jose is described as the capital of Silicon Valley as it is the hub of activity with unlimited establishments
marking the offices of major corporations.
What is Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley received its acclaimed name from a process of name combination that sought to define the region in terms of the location and significant
economic activity. The name "Silicon" was arrived at as a reference to the multiple manufacturers and creative innovators of Silicon Chips largely used
in computers and other tech gadgets to structure integrated circuits and facilitate information linkage to microprocessors. The name "Valley" was
coined in reference to the Santa Clara Valley which was the centerpiece of the "Silicon Valley" region. With the evolution of the term "Silicon Valley",
businesses and high–tech corporations started being
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Analysis: Fremont In The Heart Of Silicon Valley
Economic Since the city of Fremont is in the heart of Silicon Valley, its economic presence is overwhelming. On top of that, this city has an
overpowering influence of innovation in the field of technology through corporations, which has led to an increase in demand for new technologies for
average consumers. Therefore, this area has a large scope for manufacturing and retail in technology. AsSilicon Valleyis extremely competitive in
technology, every aspect of the field of technology has an intense amount of competition.
Socioeconomic
Fremont is known to be divided into three main clusters that describe the city's citizens (as discovered through the Claritas Market Segmentation
Research Tool):
American Dreams: These residents
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The Existence Of Pirates
"After the 1890 season, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys signed several players from rival American Association teams
– including the Philadelphia Athletics
star second baseman Lou Bierbauer. The Philadelphia team loudly protested the move, complaining to league officials that the Alleghenys' actions were
"piratical." The Alleghenys made sport of being denounced for being "piratical" by renaming themselves the Pirates for the 1891 season." Pirates have
had a strong presence throughout the ages; their presence has often garnered acknowledgment from governments– both foreign and domestic. For the
most part, pirates are more real than ninjas based upon their presence and the acknowledgment of their existence by governments throughout history.
Pirates
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Essay on Pirates of Silicon Valley
"Pirates of Silicon Valley"
1. How would you describe both Jobs' and Gates' innovation process?
a. Internal: An innovation process must have a defined goal, mission, and vision to keep the innovation competitive and successful. A firm should start
with internal planning and move on to the execution of their innovation once goals and objectives have been defined. Steve Jobs was a rebel who built
illegal blue boxes and spent his youthful energies pulling pranks that repeatedly got him suspended from high school. He wasn't a technical genius (that
was his partner Steve Wozniak) but he had an intuitive sense of design and usability, and an almost improvisational approach to business decisions.
Jobs was, in essence, a jazz musician who...show more content...
Once Gates had his foot in the door at Apple, he had access to new code and ideas, which got him thinking he could do it better than Jobs was doing
at Apple. He was able to infiltrate and leave unscathed with Apple's operating system. Furthermore by pirating his competitors' operating systems, he
gained enough knowledge and expertise to start his own company, Microsoft. It appears Gates was more unorganized than Jobs in the sense that he
lacked proper preparation. He had an incomplete operating system until he stole code from other systems like Xerox and Apple. Consequently, Bill
Gates' internal innovation process was largely due to replicating other companies' code. Although this was a dishonest plan, he succeeded by tricking
his competitors and ultimately joined Apples team in the end, keeping his project hidden on the side.
b. External: External innovation involves enhancing or adding to something that already exists. In Jobs' case, he is creating the first personal computer
as opposed to creating the first computer. In Gates' case, he is enhancing the computer with programming and integrating a "language" for computers
that already exist. Steve Jobs' main external pressures in his innovation process were his competitors. While he did not notice it at the time, his
biggest competitor, Bill Gates, was pirating his software behind his back. Steve Wozniak also quit at one point because of Jobs' poor leadership and
self–obsession. Jobs demanded too much
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Silicon Valley Medical Technologies
COST OF CAPITAL
Directed
Silicon Valley Medical Technologies– SIVMED was found in San Jose, CA, in 1982 by Kelly's O'Brien, David Roberts, and Barbara Smalley.
O'Brien and Roberts, both MDs, were on the research faculty at the UCLA Medical School at the time; O'Brien specialized in biochemistry and
molecular biology, and Roberts specialized in immunology and medical microbiology. Smalley, who has a PhD, served as department chair of the
Microbiology Department at UC–Berkeley.
The company started as a research and development firm, which performed its own basic research, obtained patents on promising technologies, and
then either sold or licensed the technologies to other firms which marketed the products. In recent years,...show more content...
Recently, however, competition has become stiffer and such large biotechnology firms as Genentech, Amgen, and even Bristol
–Myers Squibb have
begun to recognize the opportunities in SIVMED's research lines. Because of this increasing competition, SIVMED's founders and board of directors
have concluded that the firm must apply state–of–the–art techniques in its managerial processes as well as in its technological processes. As a first step,
the board directed the financial vice president, Gary Hayes, to develop an estimate for firm's cost of capital and to use this number in capital
budgeting decisions. Haves, in turn, directed SIVMED's treasurer, Julie Owens, to have cost of capital estimate on his desk in one week. Owens has
an accounting background, and her primary task since taking over as treasurer has been to deal with the banks. Thus, she is somewhat apprehensive
about this new assignment, especially since one of the board members is a well–known Northwestern University finance professor.
TABLE 1
SIVMED, Inc. Balance Sheet for the year ended Dec 31, 1999
(in millions of dollars)
Cash and marketable securities $ 7.6Account Payable $ 5.7
Account Receivable 39.6 Accruals 7.5
Inventory
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Ethnographic Analysis Of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a space in Northern California, which is a main center for numerous web–based corporations, high–tech manufacturing, and
innovators. It is a high expense area to live in therefore is one of the most expensive areas in the United States. The ethnographic subject is a woman
who is a computer engineer uses the space to commute and works in the technology industry. In a positive outlook she is creating new space for
women by encouraging other women to join this particular site just by having her body being present there, reconstructing the space with more gender
balance and diversity. The subject can also influence and change the fixed mindset of men in the field who are socially cultured to look down on
women in the of technology....show more content...
They only care and pay attention to men, while women are looked down upon and often discriminated. This creates a resistant force like a barrier
ingraining fear in women to purse such fields and difficult to climb up the ladder. This also causes every ones mindset, and not welcoming to women
causing them to leave. Silicon Valley is infamously known for only investing in a nerdy, white, and male to invest in, which constructs a blocking force
to women, resulting in a lack of capital funding for women–lead start ups. Whether it is a venture capital firm, start–ups, giant companies, etc. women
are always underrepresented encouraging a heavy concentration of males, only males to come and lacking
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Janice Sapigao
The Dark patches in Silicon Valley
People look at Silicon Valley with their eyes of admiration and longing. There are true heroes of technology that change the world with universal
services like Google, Facebook, Uber. They create greater value, wealth, and opportunity unprecedented in human history.Silicon Valleyis always the
dream of many. Anyone who has ever had the opportunity to meet Silicon Valley leaders has left in the minds of generous, intelligent, kind and kind
people. They want to create more good things with zeal. Obviously, Silicon Valley is now at the center of innovation and technological progress, but
do we the truth behind all that technology we used every day. In the book " Microchip for Millions" by Janice Sapigao,...show more content...
Also, Janice mother's health is negatively affected, which affects the whole family and her mother gets none of the benefits of the products she is
helping create and receives none of the credit. Sapigao Janice using her point of view to bring the image of her mother as an example of how her
mother sacrificed to support the family by giving up so much time at work. Furthermore, Sapigao notices the inequity of her mother faces. She
acknowledges, " Ma is always on the frontline of the silicon valley's shadow one of thousands of women whose nimble fingers and silenced grumbling
spin microchips for millions powering laptops and cellphones that she herself does not find intuitive enough to use."(16–24) Not only overwork but
also the iniquity of workers are facing in silicon valley. The exploitation of Janice mother's which affects the entire family through her point of view.
She brings the unknown stories into the light. People who work twelve hours a day. People who give everything they have to build the silicon valley
today and get little credit for it. In addition, Sapigao reminded me of the picture of my parents my relative who work overtime. The only time to
enjoy is a little time in the end of the day. In the poem "The source", Sapigao bring out the secret of what they call "the cleanroom" from an assembly
line job. She
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Silicon Valley Discrimination
1.Silicon Valley is an extremely competitive place to work. Many multi–billion dollar company's headquarters like Google, Apple, Pinterest, and
Facebook are located here. These companies want the best of the best for every position in their company and in most cases, they are able to have it.
I do not think affirmative action is needed in the situation of computer coders. Affirmative action helps make all things equal or nearly equal, it
promotes the least advantaged. It helps keeps negative discrimination to a minimum. The students from Howard think that they are being discriminated
against because they are African American when in reality they are being discriminated against because they do not have the skills that the other
candidates have. In this case, the discrimination is not bad. If...show more content...
The article states that one of the professors at Howard University has been teaching a class the same way for 25 years. The world is always changing
and evolving, especially with technology, and in order to stay up to date and competitive with other schools' classes need to be updated regularly.
Some of the students who were talked about in the article said they have been learning code since a young age. These students clearly had more
skills when entering into college than those who don't know coding at all. This gave them the ability to get into schools with accountable computer
science programs. Silicon Valley companies are going to recruit from these colleges since this is where the people with the most skills will be. Since
everything is seen as dollars and cents these companies will get the most out of their money if they hire someone with a high skill level.
2.Affirmative action should only be used when the work force needs to look like the community it serves. Other than that, the government should just
let business be
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The Rise Of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has always been a place of constant economic change. Huge booms and then sudden busts are not only common, but they're almost
predictable. It's becoming easier to observe and evaluate past crashes and use this knowledge to predict future busts in the valley. The huge jump in the
number of tech startups recently has been attracting an increasing amount of attention from investors who are looking for make it big. Due to this as
well as other factors, these companies are becoming overvalued, causing a tech bubble that will soon burst.
The economic history of Silicon Valley is far from smooth. The Valley has survived the outrageous fortunes of the military industrial complex in the
70s, the silicon wafer business in the 80s, and the personal computer in the 90s, which are all either dead, gone overseas, or now established and
boring. One of the more famous events, the dot–com boom in the late 1990s to 2000s, left many with a feeling of helplessness for the future of the
valley. The sudden growth of the internet resulted in venture capitalists seeing record–setting growth as dot–com companies experienced abnormal
rises in their stock prices and therefore moved faster and with less caution than usual, thus resulting in a tech bubble that burst, leaving investors
floundered.
One thing is for certain, if there is one thing that Silicon Valley is good at, it's recovering from hard times like these. It seems that no matter how hard
of a fall it might take, it's able
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Reaction Paper for Pirates of the Silicon Valley
REACTION PAPER
"PIRATES OF THE SILICON VALLEY"
When announced that we're going to watch a movie about computer evolution, I was like "oh no! for sure this will serve as my sleeping pill for
today". But as the story goes, it is very interesting, very inspiring that makes me want to know more about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The movie Pirates
of Silicon Valley is a film based on the book "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" by Paul Freiberger. The movie took off w
/ Steve Jobs talking to a director, which happened in the middle of a commercial for Apple Computer. The commercial ended w/ a girl running and
throwing a hammer to the screen, shattering and making it explode. The movie then transitions to a...show more content...
It looks easy as i summarized the story but it wasn't. Steve Jobs continues to deal w/ his temper problem, he couldn't manage his personal life
resulting to unprofessional treatment to his employees & his friend Steve Wozniak (based on the movie). He even can't accept his daughter which
he named LISA from her girlfriend. With Apple's success he also assigned John Sculley who came from Pepsi Cola as a President for Apple Inc.
After such, they visited Xerox at Palo Alto Research Center wherein they had an idea after a demonstration of a new 3 button computer mouse,
they improved the mouse and added it to their Apple computer. They also introduced Graphic User Interface which they also got from Xerox
Concept. With that additional feature on their computer, it made Apple expanded so fast and earned them more money. Steve Wozniak bought a
plane and unfortunately had an accident, lost a bit of his memory w/c makes Steve Jobs to go on his own, w/o his partner's wisdom in the
meantime. On the other hand, Bill Gates concentrated on how people would need him. He said "You survive because you make them need what
you have", "Keep your friends close but enemies closer". They went to IBM office to offer them what IBM needs to compete w/ Apple, they offered
DOS (Disk Operating System) which they don't have yet. Bill Gates has a talent in convincing people, in reverse psychology and has a good approach
talking or negotiating w/ people wherein I find it
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Silicon Valley
GROUP WORK: Kerby, Ritesh, Prasangi, Rachel, Roland, Kat, Floran.
#1. Allocation of funds according to the type of investment we plan which will total to $25K
As a group, we have decided to allocate $25,000 investment funds in the below mentioned percentage output.
High risk – We will invest in Stocks 52 % of our total Investment, which will be $13000
a. Exxon Mobil – 44% which is $5720 b. DaVita– 24% which is $3120 c. Qualcomm – 32% which is $4160
Medium / Average Risk– We will invest in Bonds 28 % of our Total Investment, which will be $7000
–Bonds (Treasury) 50% which is $3500 –Bonds (Corporate) 50% which is $3500
Low Risk –
We will invest in Money Market/Bank Deposit 20% of our...show more content...
DaVita Healthcare Partners – DaVita is a leading provider of kidney care in the United States, delivering dialysis services to patients with chronic
kidney failure and end stage renal disease while HealthCare Partners is one of the country 's largest operator of medical groups and physician
networks, will continue to provide integrated care management as an operating division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, focusing on delivering
outstanding healthcare across a broad range of services. They have joined forces to become one of the nation 's largest and most innovative healthcare
communities.
For the first quarter of this year, the company reported total net revenues of $2,871.673 million compared to $1,913.006 million a year ago. For six
months which was on June30, 2013, the company reported total net revenues of $5,701.255 million compared to $3,762.539 million a year ago. Since
kidney diseases are affecting more and more people in the United States and is a lifelong treatment, investing in a company that is known to provide an
excellent service when it comes to this disease will give stability to the company which in return will help your investment to earn more.
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications
products and services. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA, the company has 157 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm
Incorporated (Qualcomm),
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Disadvantages Of Silicon Valley
Young college graduates and mid–life career changers entering the technology field must migrate to a city with the best chance of success. The right
city is a city you enjoy with plenty of job opportunities and future job growth. Therefore, the best places to live in US for tech contain obvious cities
for tech fields and under–the–radar surprises.
Silicon Valley
The "Silicon Valley" area ofSan Jose, Sunnyvale, & Santa Clara is popular due to various tech innovators and manufacturers residing in the area. Half
of the San Francisco Bay Area, these cities contain startup companies, technology centers, research parks, and scientific businesses. With 39 companies
in the Fortune 1000 and home to Intel, Google, Apple, & Facebook, Silicon Valley is the go–to destination for tech.
San Francisco
The other half of the San Francisco Bay Area contains San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont. These NorthernCalifornia cities benefit from nearby
Silicon Valley's popularity in tech and are alternatives to Silicon Valley. Startups and established companies such as Twitter, Pandora, Lyft, Logitech,
Fitbit, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Uber call San Francisco home, and that's a small portion of endless job growth here.
Austin
One of two Texas cities on the list, Austin doesn't just keep it weird. From Dell to South by Southwest, the city is the premier destination for tech in the
Southwest with Facebook, Google, and IBM placing offices here as confirmation. Southern tech seekers who appreciate
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The Wisdom Of Silicon Valley

  • 1. The Wisdom of Silicon Valley This is, very broadly, Silicon Valley's take on deregulation, or: heterarchy over hierarchy. Distributed networks that auto –match people for commerce /socializing is better than hierarchy that uses command+control to influence/restrict decisions. As I wrote this, I wanted to add a counterexample, exception to a rule, or other clarification many times over. This email is me portraying what I think is the prevailing, semi–unexamined wisdom of Silicon Valley. –––––––––– Most of Silicon Valley wants deregulation because they have seen regulation fail and deregulation succeed. Wall Street is heavily regulated and heavily subsidized. Wall Street is notcapitalism to them. Wall Street is crony capitalism: When shit goes bad, you get government money. When shit goes well, you get all the money! You spend all your money to rig the rules so you get more money, which you use to rig the rules, etc. Silicon Valley redeems capitalism from Wall Street. If you succeed, you succeed and keep the money (mostly). If you fail, the company goes under. You can try again, but you don't get bailed out. Crucially, there is a healthy ecosystem, nobody gets too large and nobody is too small, at least within SV; There are marginalized people just down the street in the mission that aren't "in" silicon valley. Nobody gets too large because then they can't innovate and start to fail: Sun, Digital, HP, AOL, etc. are all companies that got huge and then either got massively devalued or closed. The only Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Philanthropy And Social Crisis Silicon Valley's $300M gift to STEM instruction isn't what it appears Numerous teachers cheered the news, reported not long ago, that a consortium of tech firms had swore an aggregate $300 million towards bettering STEM training in the United States. A New York Times article on their gift talked about it in sparkling terms – an exchange amass official depicted its capability to propel "opportunity," while Ivanka Trump called STEM abilities "foundational." The positive press about an altruistic blessing is presumably not very astonishing. The greater part of us have a gut response to "philanthropy." It infers altruism, and a magnanimous soul. As a result of this social comprehension of magnanimous giving as "unadulterated," giving is by...show more content... We lose the aggregate estimation of equitable control, of living in a world in which every one of us–not simply corporate benefactors and the establishments they subsidize – have a say with respect to how training capacity and how society works. In any case, maybe you are an anti–extremist or a preservationist who does not disagree with the counter popularity based saying that we should leave rich technocrats to oil the riggings of advance. Regardless of the possibility that you imagine that the rich merit the influence that accompanies their riches – and that whatever is left of us poors ought to have nothing to do with how our lives go – this STEM instruction blessing should in any case alert you. That is on the grounds that these tech organizations don't generally think about your youngsters, or their instruction. They simply need to pay bring down wages to future specialists. Since there is a progressing deficiency of STEM abilities, those callings' wages are similarly very high. Glassdoor, an occupation and selecting site that tracks compensation for various callings, pegs the normal pay for a Bay Area programming designer to be over $124,000. The nearly high pay rates of center administration tech laborers has powered the wage imbalance of the Bay Area and driven gentrification, both here and in different urban areas with huge tech segments like New York. And keeping in mind that the tech organizations frequently appear to be Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Development of Silicon Valley Introduction Until the middle of the century, the region of Northern California we call Silicon Valley, was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. At that time it was better known for its apricots and walnuts than for its cutting–edge technology. The first time the term Silicon Valley was used, was in 1971 when a journalist wrote a couple of articles in Electronic News, a weekly electronic industry tabloid, about the semiconductor–industry around Palo Alto, California. Silicon Valleyhas since then transformed into a region filled with high–tech industry leaders who are constantly developing the most cutting edge technology. The world we live in now is filled with electronics, computers, and high–speed internet communication, and this...show more content... The Stanford Research Institute was a "West Coast center of innovation to support economic development in the region"(Gromov). The great innovations in electronics eventually led to the invention of the world's first digital computer in 1953. In 1955 Stanford graduate student Dr. William Shockley founded a company called Shockley Transistor. He had developed a transistor based on the principle of amplifying an electrical current using a solid semi–conducting material, which was a suitable alternative for the devices used up to then. The concept was based on the fact that it is possible to selectively control the flow of electricity through silicon. The resultant discoveries combined to form the basic concept behind the compact electrical "transfer resistor", the transistor, that was to power the coming High Tech Revolution. The High Tech Revolution The High Tech Revolution began when companies were able to use the micro–sized transistors made exclusively in silicon when integrating large numbers of integrated circuits, which are an essential part of electronics. With the help of these transistors, the companies using them were able to rapidly join the California electronics industry. Companies such as Intel, Signetics (now Philips Semiconductors), National Semiconductors and AMD, were among the first in Silicon Valley to use this new technology. They became the core of the semiconductor –industry in Silicon Valley. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Silicon Valley Stereotypes Zero–point four percent of women in colleges and universities are majoring in Computer science.(Khazan 1). No other industry in the world has such a skewed uniformity such as the tech world, and no television show captures this uniformity like Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is based on the Northern California region with the same name which is considered the mecca of the tech world home to large companies such as Apple and Google. Unfortunately Silicon Valley contains many negative stereotypes about women. The first harmful stereotype in the show is the portrayal of women as only love interests for the male characters. The second negative stereotype is that women do not make good leaders. Finally, in the show women are portrayed as being bad...show more content... This skewed representation has raised many alarms in outside circles on why the tech industry deals with such uniformity. In the show Silicon Valley this stereotype of women not being leaders is subtly perpetuated throughout the series. In episode one we are introduced to two companies that are competing against each other. The first company is Hooli incorporated which has a male CEO, looking closely in the boardroom the onlygender represented is male, however the only females present in the office are the female secretaries. The same uniformity is present in the competing firm, male CEO, male president, male board members, and female secretary. Throughout the entire first season not one woman holds a position in leadership, and when we are introduced to a female character she usually holds a position working as an assistant to one of the male characters. Silicon Valley deals with the issue of not injecting women into higher power position, unfortunately many of these stereotypes are found in many industries around the world. The portrayal of women as being incapable of being good leaders leads to a male dominated managerial system. A study conducted by the Wall Street Journal finds that "Only ten percent of directors at Silicon Valley are women." (Wells 2) this glass ceiling keeps women from reaching position that they are fully qualified for, just because they are perceived to be ineffective Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Ethics issue in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" Business Ethics Ethics Issues in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" The film, "Pirates of Silicon Valley," is a review of the building of both Apple Computer and Microsoft as told through the lens of people that worked with both Steve Jobs at Apple and Bill Gates at Microsoft. The film addresses both the inner working of the two companies and the ethical issues that arise from their leaders, Jobs and Gates, desire to be the most important person in their chosen industry. While the film primarily focuses on Jobs and Gates, the workings of their respective companies and their rivalry play an integral role. Due to the fact that the film was produced in 1999, many issues have arisen in both companies in the years since that have changed...show more content... While Gates makes a statement to this effect in the film, the United States actually sued Microsoft for Monopoly practices two years after this film was released, and much of the system (Windows) that Gates produced was based on information obtained from Apple, thus creating the odd dichotomy which proceeded between Microsoft and Apple in the years since this film was produced. The largest ethical issue presented in the film deals with the fact that both Apple and Microsoft used unethical behavior to gain information from other companies which the then used to further their agendas. In the case of Apple, the used information obtained from Xerox to help create their graphic interface on their LISA system, while Microsoft used information from the LISA system to help create Windows. While Jobs was decidedly anti IBM, Gates used IBM to further his software business. While both Jobs and Gates lead the computer revolution, I venture that it can be agreed that both took steps along the way which would be seen as less than ethical. As I watched this film on my Windows based laptop using my Google account, and then typed this paper Microsoft Office 2010, it became more painfully obvious that both Apple and Microsoft own large portions of our lives. Almost everyone own a product made by one if not both companies. Does this mean that the unethical Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. The Silicon Success Formula: Bunching–up Firms and the Involvement of Universities in a Global Market Introduction The spatial clustering of public universities and top technology firms in Silicon Valley raises a lot of interesting questions as to the local economic development within that region. The massive agglomeration economies and positive externalities from public institutions to private business has aid rapid expansion of Silicon Valley for the past 50 years. Technology is constantly growing in the new millennia, as people use smartphones to manage bank accounts or data is managed and secured by the cloud. Silicon Valley is a huge pioneer for emerging tech firms, as these businesses utilize the talents of graduating students...show more content... A universal underlying theme of the sources indicate that firms that agglomerate are most likely to rely on academic talent to develop their businesses to expansionary heights. In this literature review, we will discuss other components of the Silicon Valley success formula, partnership and business links to universities, and agglomeration economies present between clustering of firms within this region. Human Capital Externalities, Agglomeration Economies, and Non–Compete Agreements First, we will begin discussing the economics of clustering and tie it into non–compete agreements between firms in Silicon Valley. We rely heavily upon Acemoglu's (1997) analysis of innovation in a labor market with inefficient job search. Acemoglu's model establishes a number of important results regarding knowledge spillovers (Acemoglu 1997). It also offers a parsimonious framework for understanding how modular design and "job hopping" can produce external economies of scale in a computer cluster. For the innovation process described to be a source of agglomeration economies, it needs somehow to be localized (Rotemberg & Saloner 2000). Agglomeration patterns and externalities are an important element of the regional innovation system context. Specialized firms dominate the region, making way for knowledge to spill over vertically within the value Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. MAS10B: Course Review MAS 10B (also known as Mexican–American 10B) is a course that helps students' become exposed to a different perspective by using a historical, cultural, and political approach within readings, discussions, and group work regarding about the ongoing Mexican struggle and how it affects us. The course examines this in a chronological order of the Mexican struggle with the capitalist in 1848 to the May Day 2006 marches. Overall, the course presented through a different perspective and provided us with tools to analyze each event, whether it would be the strike of the local–890 mill to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that all these events are linked to the present day and the impacts it has had for Mexicans. The course curriculum...show more content... However, Pitti's examines the Chicano civil rights movement, seeking its strengths and weaknesses, to is an important step in the developing historiography of the broader civil rights movement, seeking to place it in a historical aspect and broadening the field of vision beyond the more radical, attention–seizing groups while accepting their donations to the maneuver for justice within the Mexican–American communities. Which this can be tied to the concept of cultural citizenship (refers to the right to be different and to belong in a participatory democratic sense. Over time, the word has been used in relation to the Mexican–American struggle and how they have been depraved of their original culture and have instead tried to "Americanize" Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Where Is Silicon Valley? Where is Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is the name given to the region south of the San Fransisco Bay Area that is located in Northern California. It is an area in the larger U.S state of California and stands as a hub of economic activity with the headquarters of most of the global tech companies calling it home. Silicon Valleyextends to cover the whole of Santa Clara Valley covering the lower part of the San Francisco Peninsula and the southern region of the East Bay. With that, Santa Clara County, Alameda County and San Mateo County are all considered as wholesomely making up what is known as Silicon Valley. In terms of economic pathways, San Jose is described as the capital of Silicon Valley as it is the hub of activity with unlimited establishments marking the offices of major corporations. What is Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley received its acclaimed name from a process of name combination that sought to define the region in terms of the location and significant economic activity. The name "Silicon" was arrived at as a reference to the multiple manufacturers and creative innovators of Silicon Chips largely used in computers and other tech gadgets to structure integrated circuits and facilitate information linkage to microprocessors. The name "Valley" was coined in reference to the Santa Clara Valley which was the centerpiece of the "Silicon Valley" region. With the evolution of the term "Silicon Valley", businesses and high–tech corporations started being Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. Analysis: Fremont In The Heart Of Silicon Valley Economic Since the city of Fremont is in the heart of Silicon Valley, its economic presence is overwhelming. On top of that, this city has an overpowering influence of innovation in the field of technology through corporations, which has led to an increase in demand for new technologies for average consumers. Therefore, this area has a large scope for manufacturing and retail in technology. AsSilicon Valleyis extremely competitive in technology, every aspect of the field of technology has an intense amount of competition. Socioeconomic Fremont is known to be divided into three main clusters that describe the city's citizens (as discovered through the Claritas Market Segmentation Research Tool): American Dreams: These residents Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. The Existence Of Pirates "After the 1890 season, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys signed several players from rival American Association teams – including the Philadelphia Athletics star second baseman Lou Bierbauer. The Philadelphia team loudly protested the move, complaining to league officials that the Alleghenys' actions were "piratical." The Alleghenys made sport of being denounced for being "piratical" by renaming themselves the Pirates for the 1891 season." Pirates have had a strong presence throughout the ages; their presence has often garnered acknowledgment from governments– both foreign and domestic. For the most part, pirates are more real than ninjas based upon their presence and the acknowledgment of their existence by governments throughout history. Pirates Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. Essay on Pirates of Silicon Valley "Pirates of Silicon Valley" 1. How would you describe both Jobs' and Gates' innovation process? a. Internal: An innovation process must have a defined goal, mission, and vision to keep the innovation competitive and successful. A firm should start with internal planning and move on to the execution of their innovation once goals and objectives have been defined. Steve Jobs was a rebel who built illegal blue boxes and spent his youthful energies pulling pranks that repeatedly got him suspended from high school. He wasn't a technical genius (that was his partner Steve Wozniak) but he had an intuitive sense of design and usability, and an almost improvisational approach to business decisions. Jobs was, in essence, a jazz musician who...show more content... Once Gates had his foot in the door at Apple, he had access to new code and ideas, which got him thinking he could do it better than Jobs was doing at Apple. He was able to infiltrate and leave unscathed with Apple's operating system. Furthermore by pirating his competitors' operating systems, he gained enough knowledge and expertise to start his own company, Microsoft. It appears Gates was more unorganized than Jobs in the sense that he lacked proper preparation. He had an incomplete operating system until he stole code from other systems like Xerox and Apple. Consequently, Bill Gates' internal innovation process was largely due to replicating other companies' code. Although this was a dishonest plan, he succeeded by tricking his competitors and ultimately joined Apples team in the end, keeping his project hidden on the side. b. External: External innovation involves enhancing or adding to something that already exists. In Jobs' case, he is creating the first personal computer as opposed to creating the first computer. In Gates' case, he is enhancing the computer with programming and integrating a "language" for computers that already exist. Steve Jobs' main external pressures in his innovation process were his competitors. While he did not notice it at the time, his biggest competitor, Bill Gates, was pirating his software behind his back. Steve Wozniak also quit at one point because of Jobs' poor leadership and self–obsession. Jobs demanded too much Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. Silicon Valley Medical Technologies COST OF CAPITAL Directed Silicon Valley Medical Technologies– SIVMED was found in San Jose, CA, in 1982 by Kelly's O'Brien, David Roberts, and Barbara Smalley. O'Brien and Roberts, both MDs, were on the research faculty at the UCLA Medical School at the time; O'Brien specialized in biochemistry and molecular biology, and Roberts specialized in immunology and medical microbiology. Smalley, who has a PhD, served as department chair of the Microbiology Department at UC–Berkeley. The company started as a research and development firm, which performed its own basic research, obtained patents on promising technologies, and then either sold or licensed the technologies to other firms which marketed the products. In recent years,...show more content... Recently, however, competition has become stiffer and such large biotechnology firms as Genentech, Amgen, and even Bristol –Myers Squibb have begun to recognize the opportunities in SIVMED's research lines. Because of this increasing competition, SIVMED's founders and board of directors have concluded that the firm must apply state–of–the–art techniques in its managerial processes as well as in its technological processes. As a first step, the board directed the financial vice president, Gary Hayes, to develop an estimate for firm's cost of capital and to use this number in capital budgeting decisions. Haves, in turn, directed SIVMED's treasurer, Julie Owens, to have cost of capital estimate on his desk in one week. Owens has an accounting background, and her primary task since taking over as treasurer has been to deal with the banks. Thus, she is somewhat apprehensive about this new assignment, especially since one of the board members is a well–known Northwestern University finance professor. TABLE 1 SIVMED, Inc. Balance Sheet for the year ended Dec 31, 1999 (in millions of dollars) Cash and marketable securities $ 7.6Account Payable $ 5.7 Account Receivable 39.6 Accruals 7.5 Inventory
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  • 14. Ethnographic Analysis Of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a space in Northern California, which is a main center for numerous web–based corporations, high–tech manufacturing, and innovators. It is a high expense area to live in therefore is one of the most expensive areas in the United States. The ethnographic subject is a woman who is a computer engineer uses the space to commute and works in the technology industry. In a positive outlook she is creating new space for women by encouraging other women to join this particular site just by having her body being present there, reconstructing the space with more gender balance and diversity. The subject can also influence and change the fixed mindset of men in the field who are socially cultured to look down on women in the of technology....show more content... They only care and pay attention to men, while women are looked down upon and often discriminated. This creates a resistant force like a barrier ingraining fear in women to purse such fields and difficult to climb up the ladder. This also causes every ones mindset, and not welcoming to women causing them to leave. Silicon Valley is infamously known for only investing in a nerdy, white, and male to invest in, which constructs a blocking force to women, resulting in a lack of capital funding for women–lead start ups. Whether it is a venture capital firm, start–ups, giant companies, etc. women are always underrepresented encouraging a heavy concentration of males, only males to come and lacking Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Janice Sapigao The Dark patches in Silicon Valley People look at Silicon Valley with their eyes of admiration and longing. There are true heroes of technology that change the world with universal services like Google, Facebook, Uber. They create greater value, wealth, and opportunity unprecedented in human history.Silicon Valleyis always the dream of many. Anyone who has ever had the opportunity to meet Silicon Valley leaders has left in the minds of generous, intelligent, kind and kind people. They want to create more good things with zeal. Obviously, Silicon Valley is now at the center of innovation and technological progress, but do we the truth behind all that technology we used every day. In the book " Microchip for Millions" by Janice Sapigao,...show more content... Also, Janice mother's health is negatively affected, which affects the whole family and her mother gets none of the benefits of the products she is helping create and receives none of the credit. Sapigao Janice using her point of view to bring the image of her mother as an example of how her mother sacrificed to support the family by giving up so much time at work. Furthermore, Sapigao notices the inequity of her mother faces. She acknowledges, " Ma is always on the frontline of the silicon valley's shadow one of thousands of women whose nimble fingers and silenced grumbling spin microchips for millions powering laptops and cellphones that she herself does not find intuitive enough to use."(16–24) Not only overwork but also the iniquity of workers are facing in silicon valley. The exploitation of Janice mother's which affects the entire family through her point of view. She brings the unknown stories into the light. People who work twelve hours a day. People who give everything they have to build the silicon valley today and get little credit for it. In addition, Sapigao reminded me of the picture of my parents my relative who work overtime. The only time to enjoy is a little time in the end of the day. In the poem "The source", Sapigao bring out the secret of what they call "the cleanroom" from an assembly line job. She Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Silicon Valley Discrimination 1.Silicon Valley is an extremely competitive place to work. Many multi–billion dollar company's headquarters like Google, Apple, Pinterest, and Facebook are located here. These companies want the best of the best for every position in their company and in most cases, they are able to have it. I do not think affirmative action is needed in the situation of computer coders. Affirmative action helps make all things equal or nearly equal, it promotes the least advantaged. It helps keeps negative discrimination to a minimum. The students from Howard think that they are being discriminated against because they are African American when in reality they are being discriminated against because they do not have the skills that the other candidates have. In this case, the discrimination is not bad. If...show more content... The article states that one of the professors at Howard University has been teaching a class the same way for 25 years. The world is always changing and evolving, especially with technology, and in order to stay up to date and competitive with other schools' classes need to be updated regularly. Some of the students who were talked about in the article said they have been learning code since a young age. These students clearly had more skills when entering into college than those who don't know coding at all. This gave them the ability to get into schools with accountable computer science programs. Silicon Valley companies are going to recruit from these colleges since this is where the people with the most skills will be. Since everything is seen as dollars and cents these companies will get the most out of their money if they hire someone with a high skill level. 2.Affirmative action should only be used when the work force needs to look like the community it serves. Other than that, the government should just let business be Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. The Rise Of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley has always been a place of constant economic change. Huge booms and then sudden busts are not only common, but they're almost predictable. It's becoming easier to observe and evaluate past crashes and use this knowledge to predict future busts in the valley. The huge jump in the number of tech startups recently has been attracting an increasing amount of attention from investors who are looking for make it big. Due to this as well as other factors, these companies are becoming overvalued, causing a tech bubble that will soon burst. The economic history of Silicon Valley is far from smooth. The Valley has survived the outrageous fortunes of the military industrial complex in the 70s, the silicon wafer business in the 80s, and the personal computer in the 90s, which are all either dead, gone overseas, or now established and boring. One of the more famous events, the dot–com boom in the late 1990s to 2000s, left many with a feeling of helplessness for the future of the valley. The sudden growth of the internet resulted in venture capitalists seeing record–setting growth as dot–com companies experienced abnormal rises in their stock prices and therefore moved faster and with less caution than usual, thus resulting in a tech bubble that burst, leaving investors floundered. One thing is for certain, if there is one thing that Silicon Valley is good at, it's recovering from hard times like these. It seems that no matter how hard of a fall it might take, it's able Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Reaction Paper for Pirates of the Silicon Valley REACTION PAPER "PIRATES OF THE SILICON VALLEY" When announced that we're going to watch a movie about computer evolution, I was like "oh no! for sure this will serve as my sleeping pill for today". But as the story goes, it is very interesting, very inspiring that makes me want to know more about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The movie Pirates of Silicon Valley is a film based on the book "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" by Paul Freiberger. The movie took off w / Steve Jobs talking to a director, which happened in the middle of a commercial for Apple Computer. The commercial ended w/ a girl running and throwing a hammer to the screen, shattering and making it explode. The movie then transitions to a...show more content... It looks easy as i summarized the story but it wasn't. Steve Jobs continues to deal w/ his temper problem, he couldn't manage his personal life resulting to unprofessional treatment to his employees & his friend Steve Wozniak (based on the movie). He even can't accept his daughter which he named LISA from her girlfriend. With Apple's success he also assigned John Sculley who came from Pepsi Cola as a President for Apple Inc. After such, they visited Xerox at Palo Alto Research Center wherein they had an idea after a demonstration of a new 3 button computer mouse, they improved the mouse and added it to their Apple computer. They also introduced Graphic User Interface which they also got from Xerox Concept. With that additional feature on their computer, it made Apple expanded so fast and earned them more money. Steve Wozniak bought a plane and unfortunately had an accident, lost a bit of his memory w/c makes Steve Jobs to go on his own, w/o his partner's wisdom in the meantime. On the other hand, Bill Gates concentrated on how people would need him. He said "You survive because you make them need what you have", "Keep your friends close but enemies closer". They went to IBM office to offer them what IBM needs to compete w/ Apple, they offered DOS (Disk Operating System) which they don't have yet. Bill Gates has a talent in convincing people, in reverse psychology and has a good approach talking or negotiating w/ people wherein I find it Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. Silicon Valley GROUP WORK: Kerby, Ritesh, Prasangi, Rachel, Roland, Kat, Floran. #1. Allocation of funds according to the type of investment we plan which will total to $25K As a group, we have decided to allocate $25,000 investment funds in the below mentioned percentage output. High risk – We will invest in Stocks 52 % of our total Investment, which will be $13000 a. Exxon Mobil – 44% which is $5720 b. DaVita– 24% which is $3120 c. Qualcomm – 32% which is $4160 Medium / Average Risk– We will invest in Bonds 28 % of our Total Investment, which will be $7000 –Bonds (Treasury) 50% which is $3500 –Bonds (Corporate) 50% which is $3500 Low Risk – We will invest in Money Market/Bank Deposit 20% of our...show more content... DaVita Healthcare Partners – DaVita is a leading provider of kidney care in the United States, delivering dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal disease while HealthCare Partners is one of the country 's largest operator of medical groups and physician networks, will continue to provide integrated care management as an operating division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, focusing on delivering outstanding healthcare across a broad range of services. They have joined forces to become one of the nation 's largest and most innovative healthcare communities. For the first quarter of this year, the company reported total net revenues of $2,871.673 million compared to $1,913.006 million a year ago. For six months which was on June30, 2013, the company reported total net revenues of $5,701.255 million compared to $3,762.539 million a year ago. Since kidney diseases are affecting more and more people in the United States and is a lifelong treatment, investing in a company that is known to provide an excellent service when it comes to this disease will give stability to the company which in return will help your investment to earn more.
  • 20. Qualcomm Incorporated is an American global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA, the company has 157 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm), Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 21. Disadvantages Of Silicon Valley Young college graduates and mid–life career changers entering the technology field must migrate to a city with the best chance of success. The right city is a city you enjoy with plenty of job opportunities and future job growth. Therefore, the best places to live in US for tech contain obvious cities for tech fields and under–the–radar surprises. Silicon Valley The "Silicon Valley" area ofSan Jose, Sunnyvale, & Santa Clara is popular due to various tech innovators and manufacturers residing in the area. Half of the San Francisco Bay Area, these cities contain startup companies, technology centers, research parks, and scientific businesses. With 39 companies in the Fortune 1000 and home to Intel, Google, Apple, & Facebook, Silicon Valley is the go–to destination for tech. San Francisco The other half of the San Francisco Bay Area contains San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont. These NorthernCalifornia cities benefit from nearby Silicon Valley's popularity in tech and are alternatives to Silicon Valley. Startups and established companies such as Twitter, Pandora, Lyft, Logitech, Fitbit, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Uber call San Francisco home, and that's a small portion of endless job growth here. Austin One of two Texas cities on the list, Austin doesn't just keep it weird. From Dell to South by Southwest, the city is the premier destination for tech in the Southwest with Facebook, Google, and IBM placing offices here as confirmation. Southern tech seekers who appreciate Get more content on HelpWriting.net