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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Vc View: Investable Trends

began in 1939 in a Palo Alto, Calif. garage and is known as Silicon Valley’s first startup. But the first use of the term “Silicon Valley” would come 32 years later. Don Hoefler, a writer, used it in 1971 to label a series of stories in the weekly newspaper Electronic News. “Silicon” stood for the area’s semiconductor companies: Fairchild Semiconductor, National Semiconductor and a three-year-old startup called , among others.

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