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How to Turn Your City into Silicon Valley in Si...

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April 13, 2013
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How to Turn Your City into Silicon Valley in Six Easy Steps

Hint: Not so easy.

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Lane Becker

April 13, 2013

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Transcript

  1. HOW TO BE SILICON VALLEY IN 6 EASY STEPS

  2. HOW TO BE SILICON VALLEY IN 6 EASY STEPS NOT

    SO EASY
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  8. SILICON VALLEY, CA

  9. WHY NOW?

  10. COMMODiTiZE ALL THiNGS

  11. COMMODiTiZE ALL THiNGS 1.Software

  12. COMMODiTiZE ALL THiNGS 2.Knowledge

  13. COMMODiTiZE ALL THiNGS 3.Culture

  14. INFRASTRUCTURE IS IMPORTANT BUT IT IS NOT ENOUGH

  15. IMPORTANT BUT NOT ENOUGH KANGBASHI, CHINA

  16. 1“How can I help?”

  17. SEBASTOPOL, CA

  18. Brutal honesty 2

  19. EMERYVILLE, CA

  20. A culture of trying 3

  21. EMERYVILLE, CA PARIS, FRANCE (1895)

  22. None

  23. Willing to go big 4

  24. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

  25. How, not who 5

  26. AUSTIN, TX

  27. Locally grown 6

  28. CHANDLER, AZ