First Week in Silicon Valley

Once in a while StartupMonthly will feature guest bloggers who will share with us their wisdom, experience, and inspiration. Here is a little post by the new addition to Silicon Valley - Val Dobrushkin. He offers the following impressions of Silicon Valley as a recent outsider.

I landed in San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. Today is already Friday. A full week of living in Silicon Valley, not as a visitor, but as a local. It feels amazing! 

Sunny weather and palm trees! Tall pines and redwoods, majestic in the strong ocean breeze. There is a coastline on every side. A hill, a park, a grove, or a reservoir, every few miles, everywhere I look, I see beauty. Driving on 280, on the one side, I struggle to keep my eyes on the road as the Pulgas hills loom wave after wave on the West side. Somehow, I am able not to veer into the wrong lane as I observe Palo Alto Cows nibbling on green hills on the opposite side as sunshine streams into the Valley.        (click Read More)

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