Over the next few months entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial organisations, investors, innovative business models, technologies, influential commentary, events and ideas representing key moments during the past 10 years [spanning the period of Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford's existence] shall be discussed, dissected and explored…
Procrastination ensured that I am only now recording my thoughts about ”The Cult of the Amateur: how today’s internet is [...]

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford
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Key Theme: 10 Years
Reflecting on the last 10 years, and looking forwards to the next 10 years of innovations in technology, business models, investing and the business environment, Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 2010 shall explore the disruptive technologies and business innovations of the past 10 [...]

On Thursday morning we headed to the Computer History Museum for a personal tour given by John Mashey. As a former Chief Scientist at Silicon Graphics, John is arguably one of the most knowledgeable and interesting people to listen to while taking in the museum’s scenery ranging from old punch cards, mainframes and commodore 64’s. [...]

Theorists such as Yochai Benkler have suggested that the accessibility and inherently social nature of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, social networking and wikis mean that we might expect them to enhance our democratic freedoms through the opening of new channels for debate and collaboration. Academic research suggests that such new opportunities have not [...]

Among the traditional media, blogs and other contributions to citizen journalism have for a long time been regarded as posing a significant threat to ‘quality’ news reporting, whilst the global recession has shown that the threatened failure of high quality local and regional media outlets was not a groundless fear. Whilst some of the most [...]

The concept of the “entrepreneurial university” first emerged in the US around the year 2000 and spread quickly to the UK and the rest of Europe. Today this idea has attained an almost mantra-like status

There’s no better way to kick off an entrepreneurship trek than by having breakfast with Joe DiNucci at Bucks of Woodside.   I first met Joe when Silicon Valley Came to Oxford (SVCO) back in November ‘08.  He’s the type of guy you wish you could have on speed-dial because his wisdom, experience and hilarious anecdotal [...]

We headed back to San Francisco this morning to visit the team at YouNoodle, a software company which uses an algorithm to predict the success of startups.  Bob Goodson, YouNoodle’s co-founder and CEO, shared his thoughts on entrepreneurship and experiences on running a startup.  What was particularly cool however was the candid Q&A session we [...]

For the past 8 years, the Said Business School has hosted some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs during its annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford (SVCO) event.  This flagship event, held every November, provides an opportunity for Oxford MBA’s and others to interact with Silicon Valley VIP’s through a full day of masterclasses, garage-style [...]

Tension, is the word that I would use to describe academic and practitioner perspectives on Africa.
A devotion to the obsessive pursuit of knowledge within a narrow and sharply defined area is one way to view academic research endeavours; in ‘The Bottom Billion’ Paul Collier describes research as an intense but very narrow beam of light. [...]