Understanding Silicon Valley
by Martin Kenney · first published 2000
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…primarily agricultural land that was pushed aside, if there had been other active industries they may have preferentially competed for the same talent. Three good books I rely on for this analysis are "Understanding Silicon Valley" by Kenney http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepren... "The Silicon Valley Edge" by Lee, Miller, Hancock, and Rowen http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Valley-Edge-Innovation-Entrepr...…
on “Silicon Valley: Abandoned” ↗…http://web.mit.edu/ipc/publications/pdf/00-014.pdf I had blogged about this in 2008 at http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/11/05/steve-blank-on-secre... Three good books on how Silicon Valley came to be "Understanding Silicon Valley" by Kenney http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepren... "The Silicon Valley Edge" by Lee, Miller, Hancock, and Rowen http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Valley-Edge-Innovation-Entrepr...…
on “The Next Silicon Valley” ↗…but I’ve _heard_ that this, from 2017, is good: https://www.amazon.com/Peopling-Silicon-Valley-1940-Present/... I read this ages ago and it was good, but it’s 24 years old now: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepre...
on “Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?” ↗…pivot and re-pivot while improving VC tax benefits. I'm still trying to track down the J-L G quote. https://books.google.com/books?id=CLxzUW4V_2cC&lpg=PA218&ots... shows a matching few snippets from "Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region" (2001), like > 4. Many have remarked that in Silicon Valley there is little stigma attached to failure. Many have attributed this to a "cultural" trait; few…
on “Should tech founders get the hell out of Europe?” ↗