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Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Everyone Else Can Learn From the Innovation Capital of the World Hardcover – 30 Apr 2013

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (30 April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0230342116
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230342118
  • Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 2.4 x 24.5 cm
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Piscione offers a bird's-eye view of one of the most exceptional economic ecosystems in the U.S., which is sure to interest entrepreneurs and leaders alike. "Publishers Weekly" A valuable glimpse of a mecca of innovation. "Kirkus Reviews" A mixture of captivating history and thought-provoking anecdotes. Perry Piscione gives you an appreciation for both the legends that built Silicon Valley and the visionaries who continue to reinvent it all over again. "Barbara Corcoran, Investor, Co-host ABC Shark Tank" Perry Piscione shows how innovation is the religion Silicon Valley believes in, the sport they play and the air they breathe. "Secrets of Silicon Valley" shows how living and working in Silicon Valley creates a culture that celebrates success like nowhere else. "Vijay Govindarajan, professor at Tuck at Dartmouth and author of NYT and WSJ Best Seller Reverse Innovation" A must read. Deborah Perry Piscione captures the importance of unregulated freedom and the societal pride around Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial heroes. "Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson" A powerful combination of history, original reporting and anthropological observation, Perry Piscione dares every politician in America -- or better, the world -- to discover the secrets of Silicon Valley's success and its continuous cycles of innovation. "U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia" Perry Piscione has opened a window into the great mystery of what moves Silicon Valley's engine. Every corporate executive, policymaker, and entrepreneur should take a peek into how this prolific community does its business. "Eric Dezenhall, CEO, Dezenhall Resources and author of Damage Control" The only way to describe Jamis (perhaps Silicon Valley's version of Donald Trump) and how powerful Buck's restaurant is, is to share that on any given day it is the gathering of the most powerful venture capitalists to CEO's to the over 100 media outlets that visits per year to the foreign delegations who will hang out at Buck's for days to figure out how Silicon Valley works. "Jamis MacNiven, owner of Buck's restaurant, Woodside California""

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An inside look at the unique world of Silicon Valley, and a call to replicate the culture that makes it an incubator for entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the world

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By The Gentle Reader on 21 May 2013
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The content of this book is the same you find in the weekend section of any business magazine. Except for the first chapter which is all about the author herself.
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1.0 out of 5 stars No secrets given here 12 Sept. 2013
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Atrocious book. For someone with any background on the bay area, the ideas brought up here are obvious. I hoped the book would give some insight into the sociological aspects that make Silicon Valley, but instead the book just focuses on the outcomes which are well known. Many of the summaries of local businesses and big corporations look like they come from a travel guide, or are pasted from PR material from the companies own websites. As the book progresses it feels like the author's writing gets sloppy. Grammar mistakes and nonsensical sentences become a regular occurrence.

Towards the end of the book, the author makes an personal anecdote to a local preschool. She first informs the reader that the school has a great reputation. She then proceeds to mention one of the instructors informed the author that the author's son (who attends the preschool) is gifted, as a form of verifying the preschool's reputation while also touting her own child's abilities. I didn't buy this book to learn about the author's child's talents, and the story doesn't help to explain why the school is so great.

Unfortunately, as has been pointed out by other reviewers, there seem to be a majority of reviews for this book which give a 5-start rating with absolutely no justification. I wish I had not wasted my time or money on this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Concise, informative description of why the Bay Area is decades ahead most of America 16 Feb. 2014
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Ms. Piscione, formerly of the Washinginton National Capitol Area, has provided the American citizen with just why the California Bay Area is the world's mecca for innovation and ideas that change the way people live and why much of the United States needs to replicate to some degree the intellectual and passionate culture that area has established.
A book valuable for those interested in comparing how a culture that caters to inspiring human imagination and ingenuity relates to our current political dysfunction: of how the free flow of ideas allows for advancement compared to ideas held as commodities and as private property that must not be let loose---as one finds in politics today.
Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book 12 Aug. 2014
By Gregory Mitrovich - Published on Amazon.com
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A book full of important anecdotes and insights about the origin and future of Silicone Valley. Also a pleasure to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A must read book for those interested in replicating SV 7 July 2013
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It is very insightful for me as a foreign Entrepreneur in SV how this place is conceived by an american author and to coincide with Deborah how I see this place too.

I think something missing in the book is highlighting the importance for the "imitators" of Silicon Valley to be connected with this region.

After reading it I was plenty convinced that it is a waste of time trying to replicate SV. It is easier, cheaper and more efective connecting with the Innovation Capital of the World.

A great book, really useful for the current work that I'm doing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, just it 25 Jun. 2014
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No doubt, it is the best book that I read in this year. A key book for entrepreneurs that dream to be like the best, managers that want to create innovations in their companies and teams, politicians who look for ways to create cities that tranform the world,and of course lovers of a good book.

A woman (Deborah Perry) with knowledge and experience in politics write about innovation, entrepreneurship and the ecosystem of the Silicon Valley, the "city" that is changing our way of acting, networking and create business. Awesome book.

What happens in the Silicon Valley? Can it be replicated? Why are so much innovation there? So many start-ups? so much money? This book answers those questions and so many more.
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