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Category: Silicon Valley, Visit
Many years ago, a fellow Austrian student tried to find a job in Silicon Valley. He sent all his application letters to various recruiters and HR departments, all without success. Even then, in the early 1990s, the region between San Francisco and San Jose had that magical aura. Only back then, the companies were called …
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Nov 29
More than three years ago, the German newspaper Die Welt titled the visits of German board members to Silicon Valley with Alpha Animals On Safari. The managers let themselves be shown the future here, they adorn themselves with names like Facebook, Apple and Google and Silicon Valley has actually become something like the “Ballermann (and …
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Category: Visit
Innovationis the result of a complex interplay between ideas at the right time, drive, and culture of the surrounding ecosystem. Those elements may seem barely palpable, and some may even think they are impossible to learn or change, because others – namely coworkers or society – have to change first to allow innovation. Culture is …
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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: 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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