And if anything, Silicon Valley culture prides itself on being discreet.
No matter the intentions of the cast going in, or the fine words about promoting Silicon Valley culture and entrepreneurship, the show could go in any direction.
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In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
Le, who returned to his homeland in 2001 after picking up a degree in finance from Australia's Monash University, prefers to share the spotlight with his inner circle of six managers. (He reluctantly agreed to pose solo--and colorfully--for a FORBES ASIA photo.) He's adopted the Silicon Valley culture and has granted shares to 150 of the key managers among his 1, 000-plus employees.
But for a full comeback, Europe will have to wait for an entrepreneurial culture like Silicon Valley's.
Despite their common culture, Silicon Valley companies come in all shapes and sizes.
Stanford has been aligned with Silicon Valley and its culture of disruption.
Inspired by the Maker movement and the tech culture of Silicon Valley, Morin wanted to combine her interest in technology and crafting with the popular Maker movement.
And knowing the competitive culture of Silicon Valley, I doubt that any of the Yahoo employees working from home are limiting themselves to four hours of work before lunch and four after.
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It is a rare glimpse into the families of two founders and how the start up culture of Silicon Valley is often so close, so personal, and in this particular case, spectacularly nasty.
In Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, tens of thousands of young engineers have created a Silicon Valley-like youth culture in the high-tech companies that thrive in China's southern Guangdong province.
The Silicon Valley start-up culture of tireless, low-paid work for a common passion and a vague promise of future riches often seems as alien to today's young and educated Asians as their grandparents' sweatshop reminiscences.
Not surprisingly, given its proximity to Silicon Valley and its startup culture, San Francisco ranked as the metropolitan area with the highest volume of job ads for cloud computing skills during the past 90 days.
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In her book Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Prof.
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The culture is based on Silicon Dragon entrepreneurship--it has venture capital funding, all employees have stock ownership and the team is like a family, even going on annual camping expeditions together.
But Breyer explained that it is part of the culture in a different way from Silicon Valley, where technological success is the primary aim, with the financial success the secondary bit.
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At Fairchild, Noyce and his compatriots adopted the egalitarian culture that has become part of the Silicon Valley way of doing things.
When Deborah Perry Piscione, the serial entrepreneur behind Betty Confidential and the creator of the networking powerhouse Alley To The Valley, moved from Washington DC to Silicon Valley in late 2006, she experienced a culture shock that she never expected.
The mispriced Facebook IPO was a reminder of Silicon Valley's worst tendencies the way its culture can force a collective, unquestioning belief about what things are worth.
The financial media focuses on management compensation, salaries and bonuses, but misses the big picture, which is the extraordinary escalation in options grants that has rippled out from Silicon Valley and is now pretty broadly based throughout our corporate culture.
The culture of moving on, despite failure, is one reason why Silicon Valley has thrived.
And despite a thriving business culture, the region lacks the kind of entrepreneurial base found in Silicon Valley.
And keeping the company culture meritocratic and decision-making distributed was natural for this sort of Silicon Valley team.
This suggests that culture, irritatingly vague though it may sound, is more important to Silicon Valley's success than economic or technological factors.
Everyone shared pages from their playbook and themes that are all-too-familiar for Silicon Valley types, including embracing lessons from failure, failing forward, and nurturing a culture that encourages risk-taking.
Silicon Valley has a critical mass of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and, more importantly, a culture of turning whizzy ideas into profitable businesses.
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