...Assignment Submitted by: Asma Akter Sharmin - 101011070 Submitted to: Shubhankar Shil Course instructor BUS 305, Entrepreneurship Sec: 04 Submission Date; June 03, 2012 Summary of The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley, the largest concentration of technology based business in the world where entrepreneurs started up computer and semiconductor businesses in California. Silicon Valley itself is an entrepreneur because of the collection of talented people who contributed a lot to make that the Silicon Valley. Palo Alto and Menlo Park in just south of Sun Francisco is the start of Silicon Valley and the home of Stanford University. Many reputed business companies and legendary names of entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs of Apple Computers, Larry of Oracle, John Chamber of Cisco, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard of Hewlett Packard company, Shockley of Fairchild semiconductor etc formed their business in this valley with their entrepreneurial talent that creating strong economy. Fred Terman was the professor and later the founder of Stanford Research Park who always encouraged his students to go into business that results the Hewlett Packard Company. He played a role of instructor to the probable entrepreneurs. The development of mechanism, infrastructure and opportunity is other important factors of encouraging and serving the entrepreneurs in this valley. Spin offs and...
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...courts like in the United States, but they also have large fashion industries, with fashion stores everywhere. Like the United States, Russia has plenty of malls all over where one can buy different food, accessories, clothing, and jewelry (ToRussia). In fact, Russia has one of the largest retail markets in all of Europe, due to the growth of their fashion industry (ToRussia). A lot of fashion in Russia is very colorful, trying to give a extravagant and luxurious feeling in a “contemporary” way (ToRussia). There’s a lot of very famous fashion designers and brands to come out of Russia too; Valentin Yudashkin and Denis Simachev are both well known fashion designers. (ToRussia). Most notably, Kira Plastinina is the youngest fashion designer in the world, owning her own company, Kira Plastinina (ToRussia). Alena Akhmadullina is another excellent company which has their products in magazines all over the world, including Paris, Italy, and even in New York (ToRussia). Some of the beautiful Russian clothing - both traditional and modern - can be considered an art form within itself. Art is big in Russia, and had been for a very long time. “Russian culture has a long and rich cultural history, steeped in literature, ballet, painting and classical music (Bradford)”. Ballet was originally an Italian artform in roughly the 15th century and spread to other European countries, including Russia (Bradford). Russian ballet is considered a classical form of the graceful dance, and each country...
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