...Watching the film helped me realized that the IPHONE that I’m using right now wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant idea of Steve Jobs. Mike and Steve got along very well, they conversed well and shared similar and constructive thoughts about ways to change the world and to do important things. He's quite intelligent and makes sense, although he doesn't always listen fully but then again for me he’s my favorite inventor in the entire world. After seeing Pirates of Silicon Valley, I understand the differences between being professional and intellectually inclined. Like in Steve Jobs case he can’t easily be approach without you being perfect to his eyes and because of this Bill Gates took advantage on him. How cruel and stupid Bill did to Steve, after he gotten everything to Steve Jobs he immediately relinquished the entire corporation of Steve. I felt so devastated for him perhaps because of Steve’s attitude brought him down. On the other hand of the movie, it shows that Steve is just an ordinary person who also faces failure. Every person who is already on top cannot avoid any failures in their every endeavor. Still you should fight this and continue to develop what is in your mind, not to become a failure one. The success of Steve Jobs includes his faith, passion, courage, innovation and his vision. Faith, in a way that he didn’t know what he is doing in his life and what should be his carrier all about. He still continues to pursue what he thinks and believes that maybe...
Words: 735 - Pages: 3
...What are clusters? Why are policy makers so keen to promote them? Innovation recently has become very hot topic to general public or at least it is a bit trendy to talk about it between politicians. You can’t blame where it is very arguable that we innovate more now than ever before, we definitely talk about it more. Therefore also innovation clusters have been one of the hot topics within academics, politicians and just people who are just a bit interested into innovation. But what is innovation clusters have been defining generally and what are grounds of successes, what is innovation cluster impact on innovation and economic growth is argued a lot in academic literature. “The notion of a cluster was first put forward by Alfred Marshall (1890). He used the term “industrial district to describe agglomerations of small specialised firms found in particular localities. He cited as examples the cotton industry in Lancashire and the cutlery trade in Sheffield. He explained the success of these industrial agglomerations in terms of external economies of scale, where the close proximity of large numbers of small firms generated a market for increasingly specialised services. According to Marshall (1890), agglomeration economies around three sources of collective efficiency, namely: a local pool of specialised labour, firms specialising in the intermediate stages of production and knowledge spill-overs. “(David Smith, 2010, Exploring Innovation, P 267-268). However Marshal...
Words: 2045 - Pages: 9
...Technology is binding the world of work and the world of home in ways that redefine what is means to be in each. Some changes are dramatic, others are subtle, but the changes are experienced in the mundane activities of everyday life. To begin this presentation I will tell you a story. This story may not reflect your own lives, but I imagine some details will have a familiar ring to them. John is a middle-aged product development manager at a high tech company in Silicon Valley. He bemoans the fact that he no longer has the kind of personnel support he had even 10 years ago. While he shares an administrative assistant with several other managers, he is now expected to handle his own communications, create his own presentations and manage his own time and financial budget. After all, he now has a PC to improve his productivity, and interactive on-line calenders to manage his time. The nature of his work means that he is in constant contact with engineers, the general managers above him, and his counterparts in different sites in his international company. He has more contact, and more in common, with his counterpart in Taiwan than the person in the next cubicle. He tries very hard not to take too much work home with him, preferring to work late on site, but the international nature of his work means he is on the phone at midnight and at dawn. He is grateful for E-mail and voice mail since they can fit his schedule. Realistically, he thinks...
Words: 2362 - Pages: 10
...jeopardy and this government program is a way of depressing wages. These assertions could be no farther from the truth. Advocates of additional H-1B visas are the major high tech companies in Silicon Valley such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. These companies are all in favor of raising the current yearly cap and have been publicly lobbying for this. These tech companies have highly specialized jobs that domestic workers are not fit for. By bringing in foreign immigrants with these specialized skills allows these Facebook, Google, etc. to continue their innovation and growth. The tech titans of Silicon Valley are growing at such a rapid pace, the domestic job market is unable to catch up. According to Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Chief Counselor, the economy produces 120,000 new jobs per year that require STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer, & Math) skills, but colleges are only producing 40,000 STEM graduates a year.* The shortage could cause economic slowdown for these companies. The H-1B program is there to fill in the gaps. By increasing the H-1B cap, America will be attracting the best and brightest. Innovative immigrants have always been vital to America’s growth, job creation, and global competitiveness. Foreign immigrants have founded more than half of Silicon Valley start-ups creating over 450,000 jobs and generating over $52 billion in revenue. Not only...
Words: 492 - Pages: 2
...SILICON VALLEY TECHNOLOGIES Position: Manager, Sound Suppression (Advanced Products) Due Date: 12/04/2013 As a manager of Sound Suppression, Advanced Products, I got an opportunity to apply concepts that I have learned in the class into practice. Company IV was able to implemented decision successfully despite many ongoing communication barriers and conflicts. Communication and influence tactics played a major role in decision-making and helped resolve conflicts within the company. In the beginning, I felt that my interpersonal communication skills were very distorted, because I was overwhelmed with available resources and quite confused about how to prioritize given work. My feelings about the subject matter at hand acted as a barrier to communication, therefore, it took me a while to completely understand concerns regarding advanced products in my company. I feel that if I were able to talk to other managers at my company before starting the day at the company IV, I would have conducted the given tasks differently. I experienced multiple meanings of a word as a barrier to communication. During my meeting with the Director of advance products, I was trying to explain, a “fire incident” at the supplier of advanced products. However, my director interpreted word “fire” as “a layoff situation at the supplier factory”. I tried to explain her the situation twice with words, then used non-verbal gesture to explain the word “fire”. I believed that our communication was affected...
Words: 1338 - Pages: 6
...Agilent was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 as part of a corporate realignment that created two separate companies. We broke records on November 18, 1999, as the largest initial public offering (IPO) in Silicon Valley history. Agilent’s roots date back to 1939, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started the company that helped shape Silicon Valley and the technology industry. The two founders are renowned for their visionary approach to management and for their commitment to making products that contribute to advances in science and technology. Agilent Technologies started in Malaysia in 1972 as HP back then. All in all, with more than 39 years of experience in Malaysia, Agilent Malaysia has grown from manufacturing site to having facilities for sales & marketing, worldwide supply chain, customer support and Research and Development. Agilent Technologies is a multinational company. Agilent is listed on Ney York Stock Exchage (NYSE) where as Agilent Malaysia is not listed on Bursa Malaysia. Agilent Technologies Malaysia operates a large manufacturing site in Penang, known as Malaysia’s “Silicon Valley of the East.” In addition to manufacturing, the site’s responsibilities encompass business unit management, R&D and worldwide supply chain management. Agilent Malaysia has sales offices in both Penang and Petaling Jaya, which serve Agilent customers with a broad range of products and solutions in Communications, Electronics, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis...
Words: 824 - Pages: 4
...to earn their living. So a plant for high-volume manufacturing is a good way of employing many people. Even now there are a lot of semi-literature people in China. This resource can manufacture products which need semi-skilled labour most efficiently because of their low wage. Thus, Logitech uses China to manufacture mice. While Taiwan, it is giving land in their industrial parks at very nominal rates. Taiwan’s IT industry is also expanding and the quality is high level. So Taiwan had developed a strong supply base for computer parts, it has skillful people. Logitech is taking advantage of the facilities. As regards California, it is the closest Alameda County city to Silicon Valley. Having an office in California provides opportunities to interact with the other IT companies. For an IT company, Silicon Valley is special place. It also brings them advanced ideas. Due to these, Logitech chooses California as a centre for R&D. Since there are many large corporations in California, their marketing division is also there....
Words: 376 - Pages: 2
...Technology is binding the world of work and the world of home in ways that redefine what is means to be in each. Some changes are dramatic, others are subtle, but the changes are experienced in the mundane activities of everyday life. To begin this presentation I will tell you a story. This story may not reflect your own lives, but I imagine some details will have a familiar ring to them. John is a middle-aged product development manager at a high tech company in Silicon Valley. He bemoans the fact that he no longer has the kind of personnel support he had even 10 years ago. While he shares an administrative assistant with several other managers, he is now expected to handle his own communications, create his own presentations and manage his own time and financial budget. After all, he now has a PC to improve his productivity, and interactive on-line calenders to manage his time. The nature of his work means that he is in constant contact with engineers, the general managers above him, and his counterparts in different sites in his international company. He has more contact, and more in common, with his counterpart in Taiwan than the person in the next cubicle. He tries very hard not to take too much work home with him, preferring to work late on site, but the international nature of his work means he is on the phone at midnight and at dawn. He is grateful for E-mail and voice mail since they can fit his schedule. Realistically, he thinks...
Words: 2362 - Pages: 10
...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 networking are two essential mechanisms whereas Stanford University itself is the most important infrastructure...
Words: 797 - Pages: 4
...Recently Inc published an interview in which I said we'd noticed a correlation between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing badly. Some interpreted this statement as xenophobic, or even racist—as if I'd said that having a foreign accent at all was a problem. But that's not what I said, or what I think. No one in Silicon Valley would think that. A lot of the most successful founders here speak with accents. The case I was talking about is when founders have accents so strong that people can't understand what they're saying. I.e. the problem is not the cultural signal accents send, but the practical difficulty of getting a startup off the ground when people can't understand you. I'd already explained that when I talked about this issue with a New York Times reporter: But after ranking every Y.C. company by its valuation, Graham discovered a more significant correlation. "You have to go far down the list to find a C.E.O. with a strong foreign accent," Graham told me. "Alarmingly far down—like 100th place." I asked him to clarify. "You can sound like you're from Russia," he said, in the voice of an evil Soviet henchman. "It's just fine, as long as everyone can understand you." Everyone got that? We all agree accents are fine? The problem is when people can't understand you. We have a lot of empirical evidence that there's a threshold beyond which the difficulty of understanding the CEO harms a company's prospects. And while we don't...
Words: 759 - Pages: 4
...[pic] CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I certify that the attached paper is my original work. I am familiar with and acknowledge my responsibilities, which are part of the University of Phoenix Student Code of Academic Integrity. I affirm that any section of the paper which has been submitted previously is attributed and cited as such, and that this paper has not been submitted by anyone else. I have identified the sources of all information whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased, all images, and all quotations with citations and reference listings. Along with citations and reference listings, I have used quotation marks to identify quotations of fewer than 40 words and have used block indentation for quotations of 40 or more words. Nothing in this assignment violates copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property laws. I further agree that my name typed on the line below is intended to have, and shall have, the same validity as my handwritten signature. Student's signature (name typed here is equivalent to a signature): Roberta Willis Fix this problem. Propose that you will substantially lower the rate at which you hire people from us," Rosenberg told Sandberg in an email. "Then make sure that happens." But Sandberg deflected Rosenberg's entreaties, saying she thought Google only had limited no-solicitation agreements with companies with which it shared board members, not blanket no-hire policies with other companies. Plaintiffs say companies like Apple Inc...
Words: 611 - Pages: 3
...Steve Jobs I'd guess Steve is the most influential founder not just for me but for most people you could ask. A lot of startup culture is Apple culture. He was the original young founder. And while the concept of "insanely great" already existed in the arts, it was a novel idea to introduce into a company in the 1980s. More remarkable still, he's stayed interesting for 30 years. People await new Apple products the way they'd await new books by a popular novelist. Steve may not literally design them, but they wouldn't happen if he weren't CEO. Steve is clever and driven, but so are a lot of people in the Valley. What makes him unique is his sense of design. Before him, most companies treated design as a frivolous extra. Apple's competitors now know better. 2. TJ Rodgers TJ Rodgers isn't as famous as Steve Jobs, but he may be the best writer among Silicon Valley CEOs. I've probably learned more from him about the startup way of thinking than from anyone else. Not so much from specific things he's written as by reconstructing the mind that produced them: brutally candid; aggressively garbage-collecting outdated ideas; and yet driven by pragmatism rather than ideology. The first essay of his that I read was so electrifying that I remember exactly where I was at the time. It was High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies? and I was downstairs in the Harvard Square T Station. It felt as if someone had flipped on a light switch inside my head. 3...
Words: 788 - Pages: 4
...ant to know what it takes to get into Columbia University, which had a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? We just got a clue thanks to Peter Jacobs at IvyGate, who discovered an online folder where students who were accepted into Columbia's class of 2017 are sharing their Common App essays. Columbia is one of hundreds of colleges that accept the Common App, a standardized undergraduate college application. One of the most daunting parts of the application is the essay, where applicants are asked to write up to 650 words about nearly any subject under the sun. Unfortunately, the Google Drive folder was deleted shortly after we discovered it. But we picked out a few noteworthy opening paragraphs, below, and you can read more about what was in the essays over at IvyGate. The 'life as a movie': Google Drive The dramatic opening: Google Drive The hipster paradox: Google Drive The extended resume: Google Drive The romance novel: Google Drive SEE ALSO: 25 Colleges Where Students Are Hot And Smart Ads by Google Ivy League Math TutorsAll tutors Ivy League. Stat, Trig, Geometry, Algebra. Free Lesson. manhattanivyleaguetutors.com Recommended for You 17 Celebrity Before-And-After Plastic Surgery Disasters 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success -- By The Numbers 23 Secrets To Booking Cheap Flights Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Julie Zeveloff on Twitter. Ask Julie A...
Words: 546 - Pages: 3
...transact over long distance without having to travel or having to make himself available for face- to -face meetings. Mr. Systrom also uses the old way of networking. He uses his personal contacts to meet investors, managers, technical experts, buyer and sellers. UBS, also known as one of the largest Banks in North America, has considered relocating in New York City for many reasons. Relocating in New York City will help the firm succeed by attracting a talented, motivated work force. Relocating In New York City means that UBS employees would have to perform their job duties by physical contact rather than by telecommuting with their clients. Instagram's location in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area helped Mr. Systrom find investors and also some of the best technicians in the area. Locating in Silicon Valley also gave Mr. Systrom the opportunity to meet Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who wrote him a check for $250,000 and also helped him form connections with people of enormous expertise. The geographic location of UBS has affected its profitability because the bank has had difficulty in recruiting professionals to perform high skilled work. For that reason UBS considered moving its headquarters to New York where it would be easier for them to attract more clients. One of Instagram’s advantages is the density of its environment. It is located in an area where many...
Words: 605 - Pages: 3
...Pirates of Silicon Valley In: Computers and Technology Pirates of Silicon Valley Watching the film helped me realized that the IPHONE that I’m using right now wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant idea of Steve Jobs. Mike and Steve got along very well, they conversed well and shared similar and constructive thoughts about ways to change the world and to do important things. He's quite intelligent and makes sense, although he doesn't always listen fully but then again for me he’s my favorite inventor in the entire world. After seeing Pirates of Silicon Valley, I understand the differences between being professional and intellectually inclined. Like in Steve Jobs case he can’t easily be approach without you being perfect to his eyes and because of this Bill Gates took advantage on him. How cruel and stupid Bill did to Steve, after he gotten everything to Steve Jobs he immediately relinquished the entire corporation of Steve. I felt so devastated for him perhaps because of Steve’s attitude brought him down. On the other hand of the movie, it shows that Steve is just an ordinary person who also faces failure. Every person who is already on top cannot avoid any failures in their every endeavor. Still you should fight this and continue to develop what is in your mind, not to become a failure one. The success of Steve Jobs includes his faith, passion, courage, innovation and his vision. Faith, in a way that he didn’t know what he is doing in his life and what should be his...
Words: 288 - Pages: 2
