Ventureland
Place: Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park
What makes it special: If the venture capital industry needed a disguise, it found the perfect one in the drab, plain-vanilla office buildings that line Sand Hill Road. Who would suspect that some of the most influential players in technology reside in such uninspiring digs?
And yet this is the most important financial district in the U.S. outside Wall Street. The area skews heavily toward males, whose preferred garb is slacks and a sports coat, with an emergency hoodie kept nearby in case there's a need to bond with a rising social media entrepreneur.
Notable names: Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Mohr Davidow, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Canaan Partners.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Valleys of the Valley - San Jose Mercury News
Author: Chris O'Brien
