I am focusing on what is possibly the largest of these networks, an organization called The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). I am now studying how some of these networks develop and their influence on success rates in entrepreneurship. But it was hard to understand to what degree these types of concentric circles of connections were pervasive in the Valley. As a new arrival to Silicon Valley and San Francisco, I had read about this and did believe it. Silicon Valley, which has expanded to embrace the entire Bay Area as an engine of entrepreneurship and innovation, is a unique place of powerful and concurrent overlapping networks. And I found myself wondering, where else in the world would I have to face such a decision? The answer is nowhere. It was a really hard decision which one to pick. Down in Silicon Valley I also had an invite to speak at an event with India’s former Minister of Disinvestment, Arun Shorie-the guy who was once in charge of privatizing the country’s moribund nationalized firms and who is as close as you can get to financial royalty in India. On that same evening I had an invite from Henry Chesbrough, Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California-Berkeley to attend a dinner party for his forum. Venture capital firm Alsop-Louie-known as one of the wackier and unconventional VC firms-invited me to their legendary Columbus Day party. I was invited to three amazing events on the night of October 12. I mentioned a little bit about my first Columbus Day in California in a previous column. Silicon Valley has simply left rivals like Boston’s Route 128 in the dust. It is the Valley’s dynamism and networks which have given it an unassailable advantage. No one disputes that Silicon Valley is the global capital of the tech world.
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