• 1971: Don Hoefler coins the term "Silicon Valley" in an issue of his Microelectronics News
• What factors produced "Silicon Valley?"
• Hewlett-Packard
• The first "Silicon Valley" electronics company (founded in 1939)
• The first "garage start-up"
• The "Stanford Connection"
• The "HP Way:" The Silicon Valley Way of doing business?
• Stanford
• The Stanford Industrial Park (c.1950)
• Varian Associates the first resident
• Hewlett-Packard
• Lockheed Missiles and Space
• Numerous others
• The Stanford Research Institute Founded (c. 1950)
• Douglas Englebart's work on "augmenting human intellect"
• Early site of the ARPANet, the forerunner of the Internet
• First internet transmission: From University of California, Los Angeles to SRI, October 1969
• "Steeple Building" under Frederick Terman
• Stanford Electronics Research Laboratory (SERL) founded (1955)
• Aerospace
•  NASA Ames Research Center
• Lockheed Missiles and Space relocates to the Santa Clara Valley (1956)
• Research Laboratory located in the Stanford Industrial Park
• Corporate Center located in Sunnyvale, adjacent to Moffet Field,/NASA Ames Research Center
• Successfully develops and launches Polaris submarine-based missile (1960)
• By 1965, the largest employer in the Santa Clara Valley
• Loral Corporation
• Communication satellites
• Microelectronics
• William Shockley and Shockley Semiconductor
• The "Traitorous Eight" and the birth of Fairchild Semiconductor
• Fairchild: Mother of Silicon Valley
• The "Fairchildren"
• Intel Corporation
• Gordon Moore
• Robert Noyce
• Andrew Grove
• Advanced Micro Devices
• Jerry Sanders
• National Semiconductor
• Charles Spork
• Arthur Rock: The Pioneer of Silicon Valley Venture Capital
• Key Themes
• Entrepreneurial culture
• Concentration of engineering talent
• Particular business culture
• Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive
• Particular industry dynamic: Moore's Law
• Other Factors
• Climate
• Land Use
• From Agriculture to Industry
• Development
• "Western" mentality
• Immigrant Culture
• The Military-Industrial Complex
• Synergies
• The Wagon Wheel Restaurant, Mountain View, CA

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