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Book Synopsis From Silicon Valley to Swaziland by : Rick Walleigh
Download or read book From Silicon Valley to Swaziland written by Rick Walleigh and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2015 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Finding Soul, From Silicon Valley to Africa by : Kurt Davis
Download or read book Finding Soul, From Silicon Valley to Africa written by Kurt Davis and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tech entrepreneur journeys across Africa in this inspiring memoir about economic development, spiritual growth, and how to live with purpose. In 2017, Kurt Davis traveled to Africa to volunteer with entrepreneurial support organizations and humanitarian non-profits. In Finding Soul, From Silicon Valley to Africa, Kurt shares his enlightening and inspiring experiences in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and numerous other countries. His story sheds light on the power of entrepreneurialism as a tool for development. But it is also shares lessons about the profound power of empathy, what we gain when we release the ego, and how we can discover deeper meaning in our lives.
Book Synopsis The New Argonauts by : AnnaLee Saxenian
Download or read book The New Argonauts written by AnnaLee Saxenian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy. Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations. The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States. For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.
Book Synopsis From Simi Valley to Silicon Valley by : Stephen Gillett
Download or read book From Simi Valley to Silicon Valley written by Stephen Gillett and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Solomon's Knot by : Robert D. Cooter
Download or read book Solomon's Knot written by Robert D. Cooter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cooter and Schfer provide a thorough introduction to growth economics through the lens of law and economics. They do a masterful job of weaving in historical anecdotes from all over the world, detailed discussions of historical transformations, theoretical literature, empirical studies, and numerous clever hypotheticals. Scholars as well as general readers will find this book to be very useful and informative."--Henry N. Butler, George Mason University -- "This book distills and presents in a lucid and often even entertaining way the main insights and contributions of law and economics to meeting the challenges of growth for developing countries. Cooter and Schfer argue that market freedom is the key to growth, but that it needs to be sustained by the appropriate legal rules and institutions."--Robert Howse, coauthor of "The Regulation of International Trade."
Book Synopsis Road To Silicon Valley & Beyond by : SAMUEL EZEKIEL
Download or read book Road To Silicon Valley & Beyond written by SAMUEL EZEKIEL and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares in the book his life experiences emigrating from Bombay at the age of sixteen in 1960 with $12 in his pocket and nowhere to go. His story takes us from London, where he meets his wife, to Toronto, where he establishes himself in the computer industry, then to America and Silicon Valley in 1980. There, he starts a communications networking company and later successfully sells his company to a corporate giant. As an immigrant, the author shares the hardships and challenges he faced in each country. As he travels across the world, the author also references the sights and scenes in each country and gives us a unique historical and political perspective. This is a fun book to read as the author brings you up close and personal with his authentic food and travel experiences in Bombay, London, Toronto, Bangalore, Shanghai, Beijing, Montreal, and Jerusalem. Finally, the author has drawn from his experience and documents historical facts on human rights, immigration, racism and history in India, Britain, Canada and the United States. The book provides a human perspective, discussing character and integrity, giving back to the community, facing adversity, and dealing with personal identity. The book exposes some of the global challenges ahead of us and ends with solutions with the belief that the best is yet to come. This book has been five years in the making and can serve as a guide and an inspiration globally to all who start or are during their life journey. Enjoy and do give me your feedback.
Book Synopsis From Lucky Valley to Silicon Valley by : Irene Rader
Download or read book From Lucky Valley to Silicon Valley written by Irene Rader and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Work written by Mary L. Gray and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A startling exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and how to bring it out of the shadows. Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming--one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri unveil how the services we use from companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast human labor force that is kept deliberately concealed. The people who do 'ghost work' make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech, on-demand piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, transcribing audio, confirming identities, captioning video, and much more. The shameful truth is that no labor laws protect them or even acknowledge their existence. They often earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked in this 'ghost economy,' and that number is growing every day. In this unprecedented investigation, Gray and Suri make the case that robots will never completely eliminate 'ghost work' and the unchecked quest for artificial intelligence could spark catastrophic work conditions if not stopped in its tracks. Ultimately, they show how this essential type of work can create opportunity--rather than misery--for those who do it."--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis A People’s History of Computing in the United States by : Joy Lisi Rankin
Download or read book A People’s History of Computing in the United States written by Joy Lisi Rankin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today’s debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.
Book Synopsis From Serengeti to Silicon Valley by : Ano
Download or read book From Serengeti to Silicon Valley written by Ano and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ALMOST written by Hap Klopp and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by : Michael Lewis
Download or read book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley and discusses the future of American business and free enterprise through the life of Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon.
Book Synopsis Silicon Valley To Southern Africa by : Robert A. Myres
Download or read book Silicon Valley To Southern Africa written by Robert A. Myres and published by Adventures in Africa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa by : Nicolas Friederici
Download or read book Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa written by Nicolas Friederici and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.
Book Synopsis You Can Be a Silicon Valley Success by : Andre Gueziec
Download or read book You Can Be a Silicon Valley Success written by Andre Gueziec and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to tell my story and to encourage entrepreneurs in pursuing their dreams. Part of its contents centers on the story of how I started, grew and eventually sold my high-tech business in Silicon Valley. I interrupt the narrative in several places to pause and discuss relevant topics for entrepreneurs such as obtaining funding, hiring salespeople, or working on making a satisfying exit happen.At the time this book is being published, the Silicon Valley spirit centers on extreme competition and the view that failure is the only alternative to world domination. Not only is this a fallacy, but such thinking is a sure recipe for unhappiness and waste of good ideas as well as potentially good businesses, and surely the present book holds the complete opposite view. It is quite achievable to create a successful high-tech business of a reasonable size that will attract valuable suitors, and possibly will be highly profitable on its own as well. My success does not have the scale or the scope achieved by the big Silicon Valley moguls, and so be it. It allows me however to not worry about the next paycheck any time now or in the future.I came to Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and a cultural transplant, someone trained in computer science and programming, but not in business. So I learned by experience the things that every high-tech entrepreneur should know if he or she has a good, original idea, and would like to profit from bringing it to the marketplace. My idea was new at the time. When I started out, you could not get real-time traffic mapping on television--something we now take for granted. It's a precise and visually satisfying tool that gives the ability to escape an unwanted traffic glitch, caused by anything from a storm to a road spill. Traffic mapping devices in our vehicles and traffic news reports on television use this technology to show colorful traffic pictures that alter instantly before our eyes. Three-dimensional (3D) graphics in real-time rely on a great deal of numerical data--which is and was my area of expertise. I believed I could provide the technology to improve traffic reporting, and I did. My success did not follow the typical path of new tech business ventures, which makes me a Silicon Valley nonconformist, of sorts--partially by intent, and partly by accident. I did some pretty interesting things that worked well for me, and a few things that did not. This book is my attempt to help other high tech entrepreneurs avoid the common pitfalls and traps that can get in the way of being a success in Silicon Valley. Because it really is possible to be a success, without necessarily creating the next Facebook.
Download or read book Wake Up Silicon Valley written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Geography written by Neil M. Coe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd Edition tackles major questions of economic life, from the activities of transnational corporations and states, to places of work and consumption. In accessible but sophisticated terms, this book invites students to explore how geographies (location, territory, place and scale) shape both large-scale economic processes and our lived experiences. Throughout this comprehensive text, the authors present contemporary insights from the field of Economic Geography, drawing on examples from across the globe. As students engage with this readable account of the field, they will come away with an understanding of how economic processes are rooted in social, cultural and political realities.