Ten Ways To Become A Digital Master Without Ever Setting Foot In Silicon Valley

By now, you've probably read or heard all the same stories over and over and over again -- how the Googles, Facebooks, eBays and Amazons of the world, or funky startups with funky names working out of some funky converted loft, have taken the digital bull by the horns and are doing all these incredible feats with all their algorithms, big data, and huge teams of Stanford/MIT-educated programmers and data scientists.