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The Motley Fool April 25, 2005 Tom Taulli	Silicon Valley Bank's Diversified Success A comeback in M&A and venture capital financings should bode well for the bank that once specialized in tech start-ups. Investors, take note.
Salon.com July 19, 2000 Janelle Brown & Katharine Mieszkowski	Score: Men 97, Women 3 Men entrepreneurs still receive almost all the venture capital. What will it take for women to catch up?
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Tim Beyers	Tech's Most Dangerous Idea Venture capitalists, angel investors, and even corporate investors such as Google have every right to protect themselves and their limited partners from unsteady, volatile markets. But they ought to be able to do so without shifting risk to entrepreneurs.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2007	Another Tech Boom Under Way? Technology companies raised $19.1 billion in global financing last year.
Fast Company December 2004 Alan Deutschman	Offshoring Creativity As new funding fuels innovation, Silicon Valley venture capital insiders see India and China ultimately eclipsing America as technology markets -- with local companies dominating.
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Fast Company Vivian Giang	Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2005 Tim Beyers	Clean Energy Cleans Up Pacific Gas & Electric creates a $30 million investment fund for renewable sources. As more VCs join the party more money will flow in, creating a sturdy industry that could grow to be worth billions.
Popular Mechanics September 22, 2008 Deborah Gage	Analysts: Clean-Tech Startups Face Hurdles in Economic Scramble As the economy contracts and everybody cuts spending, the companies that power Silicon Valley -- the startups, venture capitalists, banks and big producers of technology -- are bound to be affected.
InternetNews February 11, 2010	Danger Signs for the Silicon Valley Report warns that the Valley is in an economic downturn that could be very hard to recover from, though signs of hope include a transition to hot new areas like green tech.
Salon.com October 13, 1999 Mark Gimein	Pot pol George W.'s Silicon Valley point man, Tim Draper, isn't quiet about legalizing marijuana.
Inc. November 2006 Max Chafkin	Why Investors Are Suddenly So Secretive Why venture capitalists are increasingly choosing to keep their latest deals under wraps.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005	Venture Capitalists They're not in the news as much, but they're still around -- and important.
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Fast Company January 2003 Katharine Mieszkowski	Back to the Garage Silicon Valley optimists say that now is a great time to start a new business. Everything's cheap, there's surplus talent, and as the veterans will tell you, "The tourists have all gone home."
Inc. November 2006 Larry Kanter	The Eco-Advantage Introducing the Green 50, a collection of entrepreneurial companies that are showing what it means to run good businesses, attack the most pressing problems of our time - and make serious cash along the way.
Inc. May 15, 2000 Steven Berglas	The Next Big Next Big Thing ...Forget about Cisco, Intel, or Oracle drawing talent from across the nation with the lure of cutting-edge careers. By 2001 the knowledge workers will be flocking to the gene-hunting companies...
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InternetNews May 7, 2010 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Highlights Future Tech The company's TechFair in Silicon Valley shows off advancements in privacy, file-sharing and other areas. And then there's the Translating Telephone.
Entrepreneur May 2003 C.J. Prince	Ray of Hope? VCs are optimistic about the coming year but are still holding on to their purse strings.
Inc. July 2006 Darren Dahl	CEOs Are From Mars, VCs Are From Venus It's official: CEOs ans VCs see everything differently.
Inc. February 2006 Darren Dahl	Facing the Capital Gap There's plenty of capital out there. So why are so many companies struggling to raise money?
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Mike Elgan	Where Annoying Tech Buzzwords Come From What do you do when you want to emphasize the cool newness of something that's not really new? Make a buzzword!
The Motley Fool June 21, 2010 Thong Le	SF and Silicon Valley: Drop the Incrementalism and Invest in True Innovation For venture capitalists, this means backing ideas that may be more long-term (sometimes beyond the typical 3-5 year time horizon) and risky, supporting business models that may (at first) be unclear.
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Robert D. Hof	India And Silicon Valley: Now The R&D Flows Both Ways Indian talent is adding vitality throughout Silicon Valley, where it's getting hard to find an info-tech startup that doesn't have some research and development in such places as Bangalore, Bombay, or Hyderabad.
AFP eWire July 31, 2006	California Community Foundations Merge, Form Fifth Largest in the United States Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Community Foundation are expected to merge at the beginning of 2007, creating the fifth-largest community foundation in the United States.
Salon.com May 1, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski	Take that, Silicon Valley! A new documentary follows two young activists on a crusade to expose the tech industry's labor woes...
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Mark Mahorney	Outsourcing the Valley Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Silicon Valley. Is it as bad as it sounds?
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Steve Hamm	Silicon Valley's Blurry Ethical Vision Even after a purge of tech-bubble excesses, the incestuous business culture where CEOs and VCs mingle too closely persists.
Bio-IT World April 2006 Michael A. Greeley	The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly VCs will not support a sector where consistent compelling exits are not evident. Unfortunately, the bio-IT field still suffers from this.
Entrepreneur April 2009 Brad Feld	Beware the Arrogant Venture Capitalist Their weaknesses may vary, but there's typically a common characteristic not-great venture capitalists share: arrogance.
InternetNews January 27, 2006 David Needle	Silicon Valley Gears Up Wireless Plans Smart Valley announced the signing Thursday of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Silicon Valley 2.0 (Beta) These engineers and computer scientists missed the dot-com boom -- and the bust. But they say that the time to start a tech company is now and that Silicon Valley is the place to do it.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Silicon Valley 2.0 (Beta) Continued These engineers and computer scientists missed the dot-com boom -- and the bust. But they say that the time to start a tech company is now and that Silicon Valley is the place to do it.
Entrepreneur December 2009 Jennifer Wang	Dearly Beloved, Please Send Cash A Palo Alto company found a new way to raise venture capital: Get married.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year.
InternetNews February 26, 2010	Is Bloom Box the Silicon Valley's Last Surprise? The fuel cell startup Bloom Energy emerged after ten years in stealth mode. Could any tech firm these days come within earshot of that record? And if not, does it matter?
Fast Company December 2008 Sara D. Anderson	Civic Ventures: Silicon Valley Encore Initiative Civic Ventures helps to ease the transition for retiring Silicon Valley professionals through mentoring and, yes, internships.
Entrepreneur February 2009 Guy Kawasaki	Top 9 Lies of Venture Capitalists Here's a look at the meanings behind what VCs say.
CIO June 15, 2005 Christopher Lindquist	Speed Dating for Startup Dollars The software industry group's annual Investment Conference for Private Companies focuses on small software companies eager for funding from an attentive audience of venture capitalists. For IT people, it offers a quick look at technologies that could prove valuable to their companies.
InternetNews January 19, 2010	Apple Confirms Date, But Will It Be for iSlate? Apple has begun sending out invitations to the press for a product launch next week in San Francisco, an event that had better be for the worst-kept secret in the Silicon Valley - the rumored Apple tablet PC - or it will be the biggest letdown in history.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Jordan DiPietro	Silicon Valley Is Dead The U.S. economy needs to support innovation and manufacturing.
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Fast Company January 2001 Amy Wilson Sheldon	No Business Like Show Business Fifteen months ago, when Kim LeMasters, 51, left Hollywood for Silicon Valley, he didn't abandon the entertainment industry. He's now CEO and chairman of ReplayTV, a company that makes next-generation television products...
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