by Steve Blank http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history- of-silicon-valley/ Silicon Valley State of Mind “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate” - Svteve Jos Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The “classic SV” along the south-western corner of the bay (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park) dates from the old the 60s to 80s: the term originally referred to the region’s large number of silicon chip innovators and manufac- turers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector. Silicon Valley is a unique mixture of research, univer- How to be Silicon Valley by Paul Graham 36 Hours in Silicon Valley http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history- of-silicon-valley/ Don’t Try This at Home - You can’t build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/ travel/05hours.html?hpw http://www.foreignpolicy.com/arti- cles/2010/08/16/dont_try_this_at_ home?page=0,0 While on campus, try running around the Dish (dish. stanford.edu), visit the Hoover Tower, Treehouse and the Rodarte Museum. DSchool (dschool.stanford.edu/) and STVP (stvp.stanford.edu) might also be of inter- est. Or why not take a peak at 165 University Avenue and it’s tiny office space that has produced a stream of blockbuster companies including Google and PayPal. For the best cofee of the Valley go to Philz Coffee (3191 Middlefield Rd), for the best celebrity spotting University Coffee (271 University Avenue) and for the best internet-fame the infamous Coffee where the iPhone 4 ptototype was discovered (Gorumet Haus Staudt 2615 Broadway) Have a beer at Antonio’s Nut House (321 California Avenue, Palo Alto) and grab a sandwich from JJFs (520 College Ave). Drive down the Sand Hill Road, where most of the big VC firms are, visit Konditorei cafeteria (3130 Alpine Road) and listen to an authentic VC pitch or catch a glimpse of a Tesla car. Drive past Mountain Views Google HQ and Y-Combi- nator. For some Garage-vibes, visit HackerDojo (140A South Whisman Rd) Gossip on the Valley http://www.valleywag.gawker.com sities, business and design that turned the area into a high-tech Mecca. Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley; among those, the following are in the Fortune 1000: Adobe Systems, Apple Inc, Cisco Systems, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Nvidia, Oracle Corporation, SanDisk, Sun Microsystems, Symantec and Yahoo. Stanford, which is the 2nd best school in the world, lies in the heart of the Valley.