“TechCrunch, I don’t think we’re in Silicon Valley anymore..”

When most people are looking for hi-tech startups, rapidly growing software companies, super smart entrepreneurs, venture capital investments, crazy valuations, etc. the first place they hone in on has always been Silicon Valley. And not for the wrong reasons either (OpenView Venture Partners has 3 out of 10 investments in CA), some of the Valley’s top companies include:

Apple, Google, HP, Cisco, eBay, HP, Intel, Oracle, Yahoo!, Intuit, Atari, EA, EMC, McAfee, Sony, TiVo, and WebEx.

The point of today’s blog is to comment on the inevitable FACT that in today’s ever shrinking, “flat” world, there are great, growing companies that have access to all the resources, customers and tools they need to be competitive in the global market place. The entire world has changed and it all has to do with what and who and how we have access to things. With the invention of the Internet, we (at least in the Western World) have access to literally everything. As Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner stated, the internet

“created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”
I could write about this forever, but long blogs are boring!!

-Jill