Rather than see public-sector investors release information, Sequoia, a Silicon Valley group, barred the Universities of California and Michigan from its newest fund and told them to sell their stakes in other funds.
This will almost certainly be the case should Silicon Valley Group be sold to the Netherland's ASML. The latter has made no secret of its desire to eliminate what is today an increasingly formidable competitor -- thanks to many tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars invested in enhancing SVG's ability to bring to market state-of-the art, high-end lithography machines used to mass-produce sophisticated microcircuitry.
Twenty years ago, my friend Tony Perkins and I started a Silicon Valley civic group called the Churchill Club.
The carbon strips the silicon of its oxygen, allowing the silicon atoms to group together into nanoparticles as they cool.
Christine Williamson, head of the pressure group Silicon Support UK, said artificial implants had ruined the health of many women.
"It's our time, " said Emily Lam, senior director of federal issues at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group of San Jose, Calif.
Plus, HYSTA, the Chinese entrepreneurial group in Silicon Valley, has set up in Beijing.
While snowkiting in Utah with a group of Silicon Valley techies last winter, Charles River Ventures Partner Bill Tai was walking around one of the cabins with his iPhone out in front of him.
In 2005, I was sitting at a table in the middle of Silicon Valley talking to a group of wealthy real estate investors.
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The mayor has assembled a potential ownership group that includes Silicon Valley software tycoon Vivek Ranadive, 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov, billionaire investor Ron Burkle and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs.
They are members of a group called the Silicon Valley 100 (others include Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and venture capitalist Timothy Draper), chosen for their interest in swag--and supposed opinion-making ability.
Much of the technology has been developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
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He and his group realized they could grow silicon wires--chains of silicon crystals 2 to 20 nanometers in diameter and typically 10 microns long--on top of nanosize flakes of gold.
Also realizing Tesla IPO windfalls are the elite of Silicon Valley venture capital: the Westly Group (whose principal, Steve Westly, is an Obama campaign bundler), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
So has the AAMA, another influential networking group to help develop Asia-Silicon Valley business links.
The trade group, representing 375 companies in Silicon Valley, sent a dozen company founders to Washington last week to advocate for startup visas being included in a comprehensive bill.
The new interface technology was developed by an international cooperation of the BMW Research and Development Centre in Munich, Germany and the BMW Group Technology Office Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, California.
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While the initial investors may be prepared to stomach that, executives need to reassure employees that the stock price in early trading isn't essential to the long-term prospects of the company, says Liz Buyer, founder of Silicon Valley-based IPO consulting company Class V Group.
The highly-regarded Foundry Group in Boulder is anchored by ex-Silicon Valley VCs.
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He's been taking his message on the road, recently appearing before a gathering of Silicon Valley executives sponsored by TechNet, a bipartisan lobbying group.
She is the founder of Silicon Asia, an e-newsletter, consulting and events group focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.
The tech meetups in Silicon Valley are likely more dispersed, but the single largest meetup group, of all meetup groups, resides right here in the Big Apple.
Leeds is impressed by Quora, but sees a lot of questions there go unanswered, which is likely a function of Quora being a narrow community so far: a group of smart, tech-industry types hovering around Silicon Valley topics like the startup racket and programming.
Whether the rest of Silicon Valley or the world knows it, AOL is quietly becoming a group of smart, focused individuals who care deeply about design and making products that matter.
So reaching out through the ranks of my connections I came across the good fortune to pick the brain of Paul Jones, former Silicon Valley resident with Cooley Godward and current Chair of the Venture Best group for Michael Best and Friedrich.
He is also a Senior member of the IEEE, Leader in the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils of Advisors and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV).
The airing of the interview comes at a time when another Silicon Valley titan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced the creation of a political advocacy group, which also aims to change U.S. immigration policy.
The idea stems from when Raptopoulos led a research group including the company's three other co-founders at the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.
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Many would argue that Silicon Valley's big law firms--such as Brobeck Phleger, Gunderson Dettmer, The Venture Law Group and especially Wilson Sansini Goodrich--are at least as powerful as its venture capitalists.
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