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Article: Silicon Valley recaptures its old magic: entrepreneurial minds engineer an economic rebirth through an innovative joint venture. (formation of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network organization) (Corporate Expansion & Relocation 3rd Quarter '93: Focus on California)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 30, 1993
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Silicon Valley is the home of perpetual evolution and creative individualism. Yesterday's discoveries are today's banalities and tomorrow's artifacts. Yet the economic environment is so competitive that people rarely join to celebrate their accomplishments. If roller coasters are not for the weak of flesh, then Silicon Valley is not for those who depend on certainty -- in this part of the world, jagged transformation is a way of life. It is with this value system in mind that the valley has set out to reinvent itself.
Stymied by competition abroad and regional rivalries at home, area visionaries joined with pragmatists to create an entity that would prepare Silicon ...