Welcome back to US Market Entry and our continuing coverage of the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part four, we hear a presentation by Chuck Erickson, CEO of the US Market Access Center, on the current state and trends of the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley and the US at large.