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Author Ester, P., author

Title Accelerators in Silicon Valley / Peter Ester
Published Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
[Chicago, Illinois] : Distributed in the US and Canada by the University of Chicago Press

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (175 pages)) : illustration
Contents Silicon Valley -- Innovation and startups in Silicon Valley -- Unique selling points -- Strong teams will win -- Working on a dream -- Accelerator darlings, challenges, and future plans -- What can Europe learn from Silicon Valley accelerators?
Summary Silicon Valley is the world's most successful innovation region. Apple, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Uber, and Airbnb changed our way of living. Silicon Valley has built a brilliant ecosystem that supports startups. Its entrepreneurial mindset fosters risk-taking, thinking big, and sharing. A fast growing number of accelerators in Silicon Valley help startups by bringing their product to the market, refining their business idea, developing their product, strengthening their team, designing a marketing strategy, getting first customers and traction, raising funds, and coping with the hardships of startup life. In Accelerators in Silicon Valley Peter Ester describes how these 'schools of startup entrepreneurship' operate and empower startups. What can we learn from how Silicon Valley accelerators help startups to become successful companies? This book gives the answer. Accelerators in Silicon Valley is a book for those who share a fascination for building the new startup economy
Analysis Silicon Valley, accelerators, startups, entrepreneurship, innovation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara County
Business incubators -- California -- Santa Clara County
Entrepreneurship -- California -- Santa Clara County
New business enterprises -- Planning
Business incubators
Entrepreneurship
High technology industries
New business enterprises -- Planning
California -- Santa Clara County
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048538683
9048538688