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Category: Innovation, Visit
Visitors of the innovation capital of the world have different reasons why they come. Most of them come to San Francisco to feel the city and dive into its atmosphere. Those are the tourists. But then there are those visitors, who come, because innovation is a hot topic. Not all of them have the same …
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Category: Silicon Valley
It’s official: after many years of bugging visiting politicians and influencers from Austria, my home country opened a Consulate in San Francisco this month. In a joint effort, the Austrian Foreign Ministry and the Chamber of Commerce created Open Austria to connect companies and startups from Austria with Silicon Valley and its ecosystem. Over the …
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Category: Silicon Valley
A small backroom in a sex toy shop on Polk Street in San Francisco contains a real treasure of strange machines. Not far from the Austrian bar Leopold’s lays Good Vibrations, a franchise that Silicon-Valley-locals know. Life is more than just about technology and making a dent in the universe. The carefully lit backroom reveals …
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Category: Mindset, Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the most innovative region on the planet. Many people visit the valley every year to get an understanding of what makes this region so different. Is it the air, the water, the landscape? Or are people genetically different? Not so, because the 3.5 million people include 60.000 Germans, Austrians and Swiss …
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Category: Automotive, Silicon Valley
Apple acquired a fleet of cars for its map service. On Apple’s website is a list of information when and where those cars will drive to map the streets. Initially it was not clear who’s behind those then unmarked cars with an unusual rack full of sensors. Today while driving back south from San Francisco …
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Category: Culture, Mindset, Silicon Valley
The Silicon-Valley-Mindset is this mythical thing that many people from outside the Bay Area try to understand. But what is it? Is it the air, the water, or genetic differences of people living here that make them so innovative? Not really. In fact, with so many foreign-born entrepreneurs and innovators ruling Silicon Valley, the mindset …
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Category: Visit
It’s fashionable that companies and governments visit Silicon Valley to understand how it works. How does Silicon Valley do innovation? How come that so many companies com out of Silicon Valley. And why does Europe not succeed with that? And those questions are good and important. A delegation typically consists from a handful of executives …
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Category: Automotive, Self-driving, Silicon Valley
Without any doubt Silicon Valley leads with the number the self-driving and autonomous car initiatives. Living here since 2001 I every day encounter self-driving cars on the streets in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and San Francisco. Just this Sunday I encountered a Dodge van with mounted cameras and radar systems on Shoreline Blvd …
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Category: Mindset, Portraits, Silicon Valley
Who can brag of having a true Venetian girl as a friend? Well, I was able to pull that off. I met Aurora Chisté for the first time when she worked in business development and marketing for the Italian the gamification startup Beintoo. Aurora certainly is one of the most inspiring and dynamic people I …
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Category: Automotive, Silicon Valley
“But Tesla is losing money! They just announced heavy losses!” The knowing smile on the face of this German manager was immediately followed by an astonished look on his face. “And still their share prices rose and remain on a high level. I just don’t get it!” It’s true, in summer 2015 Tesla lost per …
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