| How Silicon Valley changed the world. Silicon Valley has come to symbolize high tech, fast growth companies, innovation and business daring. Inventing new industries as it relentlessly invents the future. But the unique, high stakes, high tech culture of Silicon Valley is more than just a place. Silicon Valley is an idea, an approach to business that follows certain principles - the same principles that built high tech dynasties, amassed personal fortunes and changed the world.
The same principles used by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, endorsed by investors and venture capitalists, and made famous by spectacular Wall Street IPOs are available to you.
How you can build a world changing business. It is easier today than ever before for an entrepreneur with a great idea to change the world. Building a lifestyle company is challenging but achievable for most people. The success-driven entrepreneur seeks something different. For them, the challenge is delivering a product or service that will update old technology, revamp deficient systems, champion new solutions for today's needs. In other words, to change the world.
Starting a world-class business is simple: apply a new technology to to an old process, need or problem. Recent business and social history proves the point: high technology has transformed the world. In the process, this transformation has created more wealth than ever before in human history. Discontinuous or disruptive technologies and concepts are the simple ingredient in all examples of supreme achievement.
However, the simplicity of start-up is deceptive. While the concept is simple, in execution it is complex and difficult. The number of failures far exceed triumphs. Success depends on a well-developed corporate strategy, identification and execution of mission-critical processes, and the right arrangement of human talent ... partners, investors, and employees.
Launching a business is not difficult ... growing and developing a business to world-class level is.
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