Except for the 101-Highway valley.

About History

• Silicon Valley's past and present: Understanding the past to invest in the future

Silicon Valley is a subject that historians Leslie Berlin has been studying, and in this article she describes the history of Silicon Valley and why Silicon Valley is the reason for the world's enduring innovation environment. Berlin believes that the three great tools have made Silicon Valley: technology, culture and capital.

Why read it?

This article will give you a deep understanding of the history of Silicon Valley and help you better understand the entrepreneurial ecology of Silicon Valley today.

• The lost and searching of Silicon Valley

The writer Kim-mai Cutler, a TechCrunch science journalist, describes the development and historical contours of Silicon Valley in close proximity to the stories of family members in the evolution of Silicon Valley.

Why read it?

This article is more vivid and more close to show the history of Silicon Valley development, only to understand the evolution of Silicon Valley, you can live in the current Silicon Valley innovation development context.

About Technology

While Silicon Valley's technology ecosystem is no longer driven by breakthroughs in basic hard technology, some basic ideas about technology applications are worth knowing and thinking about.

• Software is stealing the world

Written by Marc Andreessen, founder of Silicon Valley's top VCs, Andreessen Horowitz, this article is a fundamental piece of the economy's eco-description of modern Silicon Valley. Although the article was published in 2011, it is still useful for reference.

Marc Andreessen, with the dual identities of investors and technical experts, has interpreted the big environment of the technology industry as the core of the new industrial age, eroding and transforming the industrial chain. Ultimately, Silicon Valley-type software companies will dominate the world by gradually dominating all industries.

Why read it?

If you're planning a technology startup, you may need to understand why software technology is promising and how it can transform the world.

• Thoughtbot Playbook

This article is Thoughtbot dry full of share, although the content is longer (more than 14,000 words), but if you can read it patiently, make sure that your brain hole open, harvest very abundance.

Why read it?

This article will show you how to run an Internet software company and how to make web-side and mobile-based products. If you're not a tech startup, and you don't have a development background, you need to know the underlying architecture behind a research and development product, and this article will definitely meet your needs.

About Culture

Silicon Valley's strongest competitive advantage lies in its culture. Entrepreneurship is not a game, not entertainment, not necessarily make a lot of money, it is a life career choice, it is a ups and downs of the lifestyle, it needs you to make many "correct" decision, it needs you to pay and give up constantly.

• Play Entrepreneurship

This article was written by the top investor in Silicon Valley, Lee Hower, an early employee of PayPal, to share their experiences in PayPal and LinkedIn and to tell about the working and cultural atmosphere of the Silicon Valley business circle. Entrepreneurship should not be regarded as a cool, fun and profitable career, but to change the world, to have a mission-driven, and to do all kinds of sacrifices to prepare. You may not have a private life, no entertainment, no parties, and you need to work hard and late every day, even if that's the case, startups don't necessarily succeed. But if there is no hard work, the startup company will not succeed.

Why read it?

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. In the current "entrepreneurship" craze, this article will calmly tell you how hard it is to succeed in startups. Entrepreneurship is not play, no extraordinary hard work and sacrifice, will not succeed.

• Freedom and Responsibility

This is the PPT shared by Netflix, which tells about its corporate culture. In general, this is also the current culture of Silicon Valley: to be a responsible person in a free atmosphere, to play their maximum value, and to be worthy of such "freedom".

Why read it?

You can get a feel for Netflix's corporate culture, and it will help you build your own corporate culture.

• Learning Speed: The most valuable reward for a start-up company

This article is written by HotelTonight's marketing manager, Kyle Tibbitts, who believes that the pace of learning and growth is the most valuable reward that startups can bring to you, which is more important than equity pay and cash.

Why read it?

Entrepreneurial companies are diverse and offer a variety of career options. When you have an offer from several startups, this article may tell you what opportunities are right for you.

• Build a social network from scratch

BD Director Danielle Herzberg, a digital marketing company HubSpot, shared her experience in this article about how to build a social network when she moved from the east Coast to the Bay Area. This article has a lot of social tips, such as making friends who know your acquaintances help introduce new Territories, and answering yes in the first 6 months.

Why read it?

More than 50% of jobs and recruitment are done by social networks, and many resources are connected and expanded by networking. The rapid expansion of many new areas is not just about how well you know the market, but also what key players you know in the market. As a result, social skills are definitely an added bonus in the entrepreneurial process.

Paul Graham's article

Scheduling of creators and managers

Paul Graham describes the different schedules of creators and managers in this article. The manager's schedule is hourly, and every hour has different events that need to be handled as strictly as the process. The creator's schedule is not strictly arranged, but it takes a large period of time to create without interruption.

Why read it?

Entrepreneurs are required to change to a managerial identity, so whether you're starting a business or not, you need to know how to schedule time efficiently to maximize your output.

Entrepreneurship starts with something that can't be done.

In this article, Paul Graham uses a number of scenarios to illustrate that entrepreneurs can not take the short cut in the early days, from the inability to do the volume of "stupid" things start, such as the initiative to personally recruit customers, through some stupid way to please the user, at the beginning of the pursuit of perfection, focus on specific small market and quickly occupy, If necessary, solve the problem manually instead of relying too much on machine handling and so on.

Why read it?

If you go into a start-up with a promising market, you may need to start with the founders from "Dumb" things. Work to be practical, not too flattering and take shortcuts, so you will have an unexpected harvest.

Entrepreneurship = growth

Paul Graham believes that growth drives everything in the world. It is not necessary for any start-up company to build on what technology, whether to get venture capital, or whether it has an exit mechanism, the most fundamental of which is growth.

Why read it?

If you want to succeed in one area, you need to understand the drivers and understand that growth itself is part of the entrepreneurial process, and you need to search for the idea that leads to high growth. How to get fast growth? This article will tell you the answer.

About Capital

For entrepreneurs, it is equally important to understand the pattern of investor capital allocations.

Official definition of seed wheel, round A, B-round financing

This article is written by Uber's angel investor Jason Calacanis, outlining the definition of history and the current early financing round. When the cost of starting a start-up company is declining, the investor's expectation of the development of the start-up company before the second round of financing is higher than before.

Why read it?

When startups say they have entered the first few rounds of financing, you will have a rough idea of the state of their company's development.

Some unicorns may be overvalued, but all dinosaurs will perish.

This article is written by Dave McClure, founder of Startups, who believes that the present is not in a bubble period, but that some unicorns are overvalued. However, with the disruptive development of technology, both breadth and depth will bring subversion to traditional companies.

Why read it?

The worry behind the bubble theory is to give you more confidence in the field of new technology entrepreneurship.

Except for the 101-Highway valley.