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Garden of the World examines how overlapping waves of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants fundamentally altered the agricultural economy and landscape of the Santa Clara Valley as well as white residents' ideas about race, gender, and what it meant to be an American family farmer.

The following essay, which is not a finished treatise upon any aspect of the early environmental history of the northern Santa Clara Valley, is also not intended to be a manual of procedures for investigating that subject. Although I would hope that elements ofboth purposes can be found here, the intention, more generally and tentatively, is to point out a few possibilities that may be incorporated into more rigorous and, in terms of practical consequences, more important future investigations by others. Because of the variety and incompleteness of the approaches that are followed here, no attempt has been made to quantify the reliability of source information according to algorithms of a sort that nowadays are applied in historical-environmental investigations. On the other hand, I can call attention to unpublished source material presented not only in the text and figures but in the appendixes, for example the full account of a transit of the valley by Juan Crespi in 1772, and previously untranslated descriptions by the explorers Rivera and Font. Font's account, as augmented from a recently discovered text, seems to make it clear that the redwood that he described and measured in 1776 was the present Palo Alto tree, a long-accepted fact that unfortunately I once doubted! This publication provides a way of drawing a line, so to speak, under a total of many years of sometimes desultory, sometimes intense personal engagement with the topic-years during which greater alterations took place on the land than most of those earlier changes that were being investigated, and during which, also, the ease of access to governmental records and other sources changed, not always for the better.

Intro -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE BILLIONAIRE'S FACTORY -- Section 1: BEFORE THE PITCH -- THE GOLDEN ROLODEX PROMISE -- WHAT'S MY START-UP WORTH? -- BEING INVESTMENT-READY -- ATTORNEYS AND PAPERWORK -- MAKE THE PITCH ENTERTAINING -- FORGET THE HOCKEY STICK, IT'S NEAR VERTICAL -- Section 2: THE PITCH -- PITCH DECK ESSENTIALS -- SLIDE 3: 'THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE' PROBLEM -- SLIDE 4: 'THE SOLUTION' -- SLIDE 5: 'MARKET SIZE' -- SLIDE 6: 'PRODUCT /TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE / HOW IT WORKS' -- SLIDE 7: 'SCALABILITY' -- SLIDE 8: 'INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY' -- THE INVISIBLE 'CUSTOMER' SLIDE -- SLIDE 9: 'GO TO MARKET' -- SLIDE 10: 'COMPETITION' -- SLIDE 11: 'REVENUE PROJECTIONS/BUSINESS MODEL' -- SLIDE 12: 'ADVISORS' -- SLIDE 13: 'USE OF FUNDS' -- SLIDE 14: 'EXIT' -- DETERMINING A VALUATION -- Section 3: AFTER THE PITCH -- CLOSING INVESTORS -- CONVERTIBLE NOTES -- HOW VCS CAN HELP WITH START-UP MARKETING -- CROWDSOURCING VIDEO VIRAL FINANCING -- STRATEGIC INVESTORS -- WHAT FOUNDERS LEARN IN BOARD MEETINGS -- NEGOTIATIONS AND ACQUISITIONS -- Section 4: LIVING IN THE VALLEY: A VC'S PERSPECTIVE -- THE CONTRARIAN -- GREEN BANANAS -- THE MOTHER NET -- ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE -- OFF THE RADAR -- THE STANFORD DISH -- READING THE TEA LEAVES -- WHAT STEVE JOBS DID FOR ENTREPRENEURS -- THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT -- GRASSROOTS AND THE BLOCK -- BILLBOARDS ON THE US 101 -- Section 5: THE FUTURE IS NOW -- THE CHINESE CASH SYNDICATES -- THE 'I' GENERATION -- DON'T LOOK BACK -- THE FUTURE -- GLOSSARY.

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