隠されたシリコンバレー : Secret Silicon Valley™

Explores & Explodes Famous Silicon Valley Myths & Memes
Unlocks & Shares The Secrets To Startup Success
Introduces A Take-No-Prisoners Startup Framework

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Secret Silicon Valley
  • What if most of the accepted truths and official narrative about why certain startups, new ventures or new products have succeeded or failed are completely wrong?
  • Worse, what if these accepted truths and official narratives are not just simply wrong but dangerously destructive?
  • And worst of all, what if these destructive "truths" have become so accepted and so ingrained that they are now enshrined as series of powerful Myths and Memes?

We'll explore and explode some of Silicon Valley's most accepted truths and purported reasons for success and failure. And while we're at it, we'll explore not just the technology component, but the more important and far less analyzed and understood business and human resources components.

From the structure of investment financing and the design, development and marketing of product to the challenges of hiring, deploying. managing and retaining strong talent, we'll discuss key but often overlooked factors such as government market distortions (e.g., regulatory capture, SEC regulations related to investor accreditation, etc.) and the ubiquitous yet ever destructive office politics.

We'll leave no stone unturned as we propose that today's Silicon Valley (now including San Francisco), is less and less about technology and more and more about psychology, influence, persuasion, Jedi-level business development and sales, talent acquisition, management, retention and deployment along with strategic and tactical execution.

Today's companies need less of a technical genius and more of battle-tested and proven leader like General MacArthur or the valley equivalent of Steve Jobs (without the rough edges).

We'll walk through all of this as we seek to help you unlock and most importantly monetize your startup's true potential.

Here a bit more of what we'll explore:
  • What made Steve Jobs successful?
  • What did he see and do that the captains at the helm of Nokia and Blackberry/RIM failed or refused to see?
  • Why was this the case?
  • Why is low tech or no tech sometimes the best way to go?
  • What exactly is needed to take a startup from idea to product development, launch and ongoing operations while avoiding the dozens of landmines along the way?
  • What are these actual landmines and what are the "specs" for each one, in particular their frequency of occurrence ,and destructive capability?
  • How can we identify and sidestep them or when it is too late for that, defuse them?