Silicon Valley Program

Articles of Interest to a Silicon Valley Audience


Higher Education and Innovation/Tech

January 17, 2013 "Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter” by Steven Levy in Wired
April 30, 2012 New Yorker article by Ken Auletta, "Get Rich U."

Internet (Overall Market)

April 2, 2013 Business Insider, “20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money”
May 30, 2012    Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers' Mary Meeker presents her "Internet Trends for 2012"
October 18, 2011 Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers' Mary Meeker presents her "Internet Trends"
July 16, 2011 Platform Adoption Rates
March 24, 2011 Wedbush Private Shares Group's Lou Kerner presents, "This Week in Social Media:  The Second Internet"
Regularly Updated LUMA Partners' "LUMAscapes" sector landscapes organizing confusing sector ecosystems

Mobile

October 2011 Forrester Research report on mobile commerce, "Telco 2.0"
February 26, 2012 Gigaom, "Snapshot: The many moving parts of enterprise mobility"
February 2012 Pxldot's "Android Measuring Stick"

Social

April 23, 2012    WSJ'sScott Austin culls Facebook's IPO filing in "Facebook Passes the 900 Million Monthly Users Barrier"
Q3, 2011   Nielsen's "State of the Media:  The Social Media Report"
May 2011 TechCrunch's "The Geosocial Universe"
January 15, 2012 Lou Kerner's "The Social Internet," Wall Street's View on Social Media

Video

Q4, 2011   Ooyala's "Video Index Report" online video index

Advertising


2010    LUMA Partners' "Display Advertising Technology Landscape"

Entrepreneurship

May 12, 2012    Sunil Rajaraman, Guest Author at TechCrunch, writes "How to Raise a $1M Seed Round."
April 24, 2011 Christopher Steiner at Forbes writes "Biz Dev is a Clever Name for Dirty Work"

Education


February 2013   "Getting the Most out of Google"
April 30, 2012   Ken Auletta writes "Get Rich U.: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley.  Should there be?" in The New Yorker.

Gaming

June 12, 2012 Daisuke Wakabayashi and Spencer E. Ante write in the WSJ, "Mobile Game Fight Goes Global".

Reading List

April 20, 2012 Dean Takahashi writes "The top 25 technology books of all time"

Blogs & Sources

Business Insider
New York Times Technology Page
San Francisco Chronicle Technology Page
San Jose Mercury News
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Silicon Valley Watcher
Tech Crunch
Tech Flash
Wall Street Journal Technology Page
Wired


* With special thanks to Jonathan, who provided the bulk of these links.  Please alert the webmaster with any suggestions and improvements.