From Silicon Valley to Swaziland
Author | : Rick Walleigh |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627871853 |
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Author | : Rick Walleigh |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627871853 |
Author | : Kurt Davis |
Publisher | : Morgan James Publishing |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1631952730 |
A tech entrepreneur journeys across Africa in this inspiring memoir about economic development, spiritual growth, and how to live with purpose. In 2017, Kurt Davis traveled to Africa to volunteer with entrepreneurial support organizations and humanitarian non-profits. In Finding Soul, From Silicon Valley to Africa, Kurt shares his enlightening and inspiring experiences in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and numerous other countries. His story sheds light on the power of entrepreneurialism as a tool for development. But it is also shares lessons about the profound power of empathy, what we gain when we release the ego, and how we can discover deeper meaning in our lives.
Author | : AnnaLee Saxenian |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674025660 |
Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy. Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations. The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States. For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.
Author | : Stephen Gillett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544502496 |
Author | : Robert D. Cooter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012-01-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691147922 |
"Cooter and Schfer provide a thorough introduction to growth economics through the lens of law and economics. They do a masterful job of weaving in historical anecdotes from all over the world, detailed discussions of historical transformations, theoretical literature, empirical studies, and numerous clever hypotheticals. Scholars as well as general readers will find this book to be very useful and informative."--Henry N. Butler, George Mason University -- "This book distills and presents in a lucid and often even entertaining way the main insights and contributions of law and economics to meeting the challenges of growth for developing countries. Cooter and Schfer argue that market freedom is the key to growth, but that it needs to be sustained by the appropriate legal rules and institutions."--Robert Howse, coauthor of "The Regulation of International Trade."
Author | : Samuel Ezekiel |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781638066231 |
The author shares in the book his life experiences emigrating from Bombay at the age of sixteen in 1960 with $12 in his pocket and nowhere to go. His story takes us from London, where he meets his wife, to Toronto, where he establishes himself in the computer industry, then to America and Silicon Valley in 1980. There, he starts a communications networking company and later successfully sells his company to a corporate giant. As an immigrant, the author shares the hardships and challenges he faced in each country. As he travels across the world, the author also references the sights and scenes in each country and gives us a unique historical and political perspective. This is a fun book to read as the author brings you up close and personal with his authentic food and travel experiences in Bombay, London, Toronto, Bangalore, Shanghai, Beijing, Montreal, and Jerusalem. Finally, the author has drawn from his experience and documents historical facts on human rights, immigration, racism and history in India, Britain, Canada and the United States. The book provides a human perspective, discussing character and integrity, giving back to the community, facing adversity, and dealing with personal identity. The book exposes some of the global challenges ahead of us and ends with solutions with the belief that the best is yet to come. This book has been five years in the making and can serve as a guide and an inspiration globally to all who start or are during their life journey. Enjoy and do give me your feedback.
Author | : Irene Rader |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Dakota Territory |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Lewis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393347814 |
Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley and discusses the future of American business and free enterprise through the life of Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon.
Author | : Joy Lisi Rankin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0674970977 |
Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.
Author | : Mary L. Gray |
Publisher | : Eamon Dolan Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 1328566242 |
"A startling exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and how to bring it out of the shadows. Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming--one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri unveil how the services we use from companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast human labor force that is kept deliberately concealed. The people who do 'ghost work' make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech, on-demand piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, transcribing audio, confirming identities, captioning video, and much more. The shameful truth is that no labor laws protect them or even acknowledge their existence. They often earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked in this 'ghost economy,' and that number is growing every day. In this unprecedented investigation, Gray and Suri make the case that robots will never completely eliminate 'ghost work' and the unchecked quest for artificial intelligence could spark catastrophic work conditions if not stopped in its tracks. Ultimately, they show how this essential type of work can create opportunity--rather than misery--for those who do it."--Dust jacket.